So here we are, one full year into the Trump term. Are you tired of winning yet? Me either.
Looking back over this eventful and tumultuous year a few things become clear.
Donald Trump is, in fact, a genius. He ran for his first public office at age 70. That office is the most powerful in the world, thus a very highly prized one, attracting some of the smartest people around into the contest.
Not only some of the smartest. Some of the richest and best connected. He torched them, all of them. The Bush and Clinton dynasties are left in smoking ruins.
The enormity of his accomplishment is breathtaking.
Then there are the talking heads and members of the democrat and republican opposition. Each smarter than the next, if they do say so themselves. All completely, utterly, undeniably wrong.
Trump has no idea how to wield the levers of presidential power they insisted. Wrong, as he has already proven dozens of times.
Predictions of stock market collapse in the wake of his victory? Wrong. Not only wrong, spectacularly, unprecedentedly wrong.
Predictions of trade wars. Wrong.
Predictions of blundering into new wars. Wrong.
Predictions of congressional intransigence. Wrong.
Predictions of impeachment. Wrong.
The Obamacare mandate is gone.
Hundreds of billions of dollars sequestered overseas to avoid US corporate taxes are headed home.
Announcements of new corporate investment in US manufacturing arrive on an almost daily basis.
The tax cut legislation he shepherded through the process his critics claimed he could not possibly understand will begin to dump billions into the pockets of hard working Americans next month. Almost as exciting as that prospect is, it also means less money for the federal government to fritter away.
A truly amazing performance made all the more enjoyable by the President's fondness for tweeting his thoughts in order that heads explode daily among the intelligensia, left and right.
Keep up the good work Mr. President.
