The Most Effective Administration

It's an enigma, what the musical King of Siam called "a puzzlement." Michael Walsh writes in the New York Post about the apparent contradictions posed by the Trump administration.

Donald Trump has refused to conform to his political opponents’ conventional notions of what constitutes an effective White House operation. And yet, the economy is humming, hosts of regulations have been rolled back, the unemployment rate is down, job openings are soaring, taxes have been cut and black joblessness is at an all-time low.

Prototypes for the wall along the Mexican border are being tested, raids by ICE are rounding up dangerous illegal aliens and the “travel ban” against several Muslim nations was argued last month before the Supreme Court, where the president’s authority over immigration will be upheld.

In foreign affairs, the two Koreas are talking to each other, with a summit between Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un slated for June in Singapore, the ISIS “caliphate” has been effectively destroyed and just last week Trump yanked the carpets out from under the Iranian mullahs and canceled the nuclear deal negotiated — but never submitted to the Senate for ratification — by the Obama administration.

In short, this has been the most effective administration since FDR’s first term.

I don't know if I'd go that far, but certainly some hyperbole is justified by the results catalogued. And Walsh fails to mention the many conservative judges nominated and approved, one of my favorite outcomes for its long-lasting impact.