Just for the sake of argument, imagine if, during the first two years of her administration, she achieved stunning successes:
* The Dow rises 7,000 points after being nearly flat around 18,000 the two prior years.
* Consumer confidence surges to an eighteen-year high.
* Black unemployment hits 5.9%, the lowest level ever recorded.
* Hispanic and Asian-American unemployment also hit record lows of 4.5% and 2%, respectively.
* Female unemployment is at the lowest rate since 1953 (3.6%).
* Unemployment among the young is at its lowest in five decades (9.2%) among veterans the lowest in two (3%).
* Economic growth for the year nears 3% in 2018, for the first time since the 2008 financial crisis.
* There is a freeze on new regulations, to the relief of American businesses. For every new regulation, about twenty-two are repealed.
* Jobless claims are at their lowest level in five decades.
* Job openings outnumber people looking for jobs for the first time on record.
* The positive job-growth streak is the longest on record.
* Job satisfaction is at its highest level in a decade and a half, and 85% of blue-collar workers think the country is "headed in the right direction."
* Some $5.5 trillion in tax cuts are instituted, with most families seeing savings as a result.
* The corporate tax rate is lowered as well, since it had been the highest in the developed world and was discouraging investment.
* The president cleared bureaucratic obstacles to constructing the Keystone XL pipeline and withdrew from the onerous Paris Climate Agreement.
* The president helped make the United States the world's biggest crude oil exporter for the first time.
* ISIS's Iraq arm is effectively finished off.
* The United States stops funding Syrian militias with terror ties, quieting that country's civil war. Military conflicts in other parts of the world
are largely avoided.
* NATO partner nations are successfully pressured into paying their fair share for the alliance, reducing the US burden.
* Sentencing reductions are loosened for nonviolent drug offenders are achieved, a big, libertarian step forward for criminal justice reform.
* Medical regulations are loosened to allow terminally ill patients to ty experimental procedures if they so choose, approvals for affordable generic
drugs are accelerated, and employers are permitted to create more flexible and varied health plans. Veterans' medical conditions are processed
faster than ever before.
* The president entered the Oval Office already a supporter of gay marriage, the first US president of whom that is true.
* Two solidly conservative new Supreme Court justices are confirmed.
* Over five million new jobs are created, a half million in manufacturing and over a hundred thousand in oil and natural gas transportation.
* 95% of manufacturers say they are optimistic the country is headed in the right direction.
If our hypothetical President Hillary Rodham Clinton achieved all this, how might the press react? Wouldn't they talk about her as competent, respectable,
and perhaps even an inspiration? They might even call her track record "great," or at least acknowledge that she gets things done and knows how to deal
with Capitol Hill. She would be praised as well by most academics and surely by advocates for the advancement of women.
Obviously and thankfully, Hillary Clinton never became president, but all of the achievements described above are real--and are the handiwork of the person who became president on Jan 20, 2017: Donald J. Trump.
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