If these pronouncements sound familiar, it’s because they are.
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they → sound → ?
The same people predicting this now in op-eds, online and in podcasts predicted the same after Trump’s first impeachment, after the 2020 election, after January 6, after the second impeachment and after every criminal indictment filed against him.
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people → predict → him
Any fair-minded political analyst would admit that over the past decade, Donald Trump has been the most consequential leader in the world, and that he has accomplished more than any Republican president in at least the past 100 years.
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he → admit → years
His record should not be judged on midterm results but on what it has delivered.
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it → judge → what
And if the question on the table is "Should Trump’s policies continue?" the record says yes — politically, economically, geopolitically and culturally.
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record → continue → table
The political record
Critics predicted Trump would destroy the Republican Party and set back American conservatism.
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Trump → predict → conservatism
The opposite happened.
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opposite → happen → ?
Across the West, the right has either collapsed or made its peace with the governing consensus.
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right → collapse → consensus
Canada hasn't had a conservative prime minister since 2015.
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Canada → have → 2015
Britain's Conservatives hold just 118 of 650 seats in the House of Commons.
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Conservatives → hold → Commons
Marine Le Pen has never cleared 42% of the vote in a French presidential election.
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Pen → clear → election
Germany's conservatives govern in coalition with the Social Democrats, and in Italy, The Economist recently praised Giorgia Meloni for "tacking to the middle."
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Economist → govern → middle
Only in America has the right governed on low taxes, lighter regulation, social conservatism and a strong military — and kept winning.
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right → govern → taxes
Democrats had little trouble beating moderate Republicans like John McCain and Mitt Romney.
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Democrats → have → McCain
Trump has confounded them for most of a decade.
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Trump → confound → decade
No other leader on the Western right can say that.
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leader → say → that
The economic record
We were told populism would wreck the economy.
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populism → tell → economy
It hasn't.
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It → have → ?
Trump worked with Congress to cut taxes and roll back regulation, and he has trimmed a bloated bureaucracy: Between December 2024 and June 2026, the federal workforce shrank by 255,000 employees, or 12%, according to The Washington Post.
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workforce → work → Post
Ordinary families have benefited.
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families → benefit → ?
Real median household income rose from $77,230 in 2016 to a record $87,460 last year, both measured in 2025 dollars.
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income → rise → dollars
Those figures are adjusted for inflation and describe the household squarely in the middle.
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figures → adjust → middle
Inflation, the defining failure of the Biden years, has been tamed.
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Inflation → tame → years
Core inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, peaked at 6.6% in September 2022 and was still 3.3% in November 2024.
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which → strip → November
This September it stood at 2.6%.
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it → stand → %
Americans are not uniquely squeezed.
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Americans → squeeze → ?
Freedom does not come cheap.
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Freedom → come → ?
Americans today are stronger, richer, safer and freer than we have been in decades, and those who want to see this country humbled, even humiliated, know it.
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country → want → it
Growth is outpacing our peers.
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Growth → outpace → peers
In September, the OECD projected U.S. real GDP growth of 2.2% for 2026, the highest in the G7.
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OECD → project → G7
The latest data are stronger still: the economy grew at a 3.4% annualized rate in the third quarter, compared with 0.5% for the EU and roughly 1.3% for Canada.
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economy → grow → Canada
The IMF projects 2026 GDP per capita of $95,212 in the United States, against $65,699 in Germany, $61,108 in Britain, $60,105 in Canada, $51,448 in France, $35,400 in Japan and $15,371 in China.
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IMF → project → China
The United States is not merely the richest major country on earth; it is pulling away from the rest of the West.
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it → pull → West
The geopolitical record
Critics warned that Trump's foreign policy would leave America isolated and weak.
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policy → warn → America
Instead, he is charting a course to victory over China, our only serious geopolitical rival.
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he → chart → China
Before Trump, Washington's establishment insisted that China's rise was good for America, a view the Obama administration voiced as late as 2012.
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administration → insist → 2012
Trump took a more realistic view.
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Trump → take → view
His tariffs kept state-subsidized Chinese cars from gutting our auto industry.
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tariffs → keep → industry
His moves on the Panama Canal and Greenland denied Beijing footholds in our hemisphere.
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moves → deny → hemisphere
He is rebuilding a military that had grown dangerously weak and distracted by ideology.
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that → rebuild → ideology
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