Trump triumphant: A consequential, lasting end to 2017

Trump has tilted the court rightward in lasting ways. Justice Neil Gorsuch was a substantial, conservative addition to the Supreme Court. And it wasn’t a one-off: The dozen new U.S. Circuit Court judges he has named is the most during a president’s first year in office in more than a century.

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Trump has followed through on eviscerating regulations, many of them imposed by Obama. He has revoked 67, and delayed or derailed more than 1,500 others.

No matter that much of it is not of his doing, the economy has grown consistently under his watch.

ISIS is in retreat. The N.Y. Times’ Ross Douthat calls it “A War Trump Won.”

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