By any conservative standard, Mr. Trump’s first year should be regarded as successful: a significant reduction in business taxation, radical deregulation of the U.S. economy, the Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination and withdrawal from the quixotic Paris climate accord.
Pop quiz: How many of Mr. Trump’s primary opponents—or a President Romney, for that matter—would have done all of that? We’ve written previously that Mr. Trump could have walked away after the first year and entered the Republican pantheon....Year two. Mr. Trump pulled out of Barack Obama’s flawed nuclear deal with Iran. Deregulation in 2017 resurrected U.S. energy production. The economy produced by the policies of the first year—an accomplishment shared with the McConnell-Ryan Republican Congress—has been strong, with more Americans finding work and getting paid higher real wages. Mr. Trump’s most admirable act of 2018 was staying the course with Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination. Liberals’ willingness to ratify a radically lower standard of due process will affect politics for years. Under enormous pressure, Mr. Trump didn’t flinch."
There is still much more to do.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-at-the-turn-11546473140
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