Victor Davis Hanson Trump’s ‘Failures’ – American Greatness

Trump’s ‘Failures’ – American Greatness
"It is popular on the NeverTrump Right and everyone on the Left to claim that President Trump has “failed” as we head into an election year.

• But his supposed failures are instructive.

Take the wall.
True, Trump certainly in the last three years has not come close to building an envisioned initial phase of 1,000 miles or so of border fencing to stop the easiest access to the United States, much less made Mexico pay for it.
Yet even his critics concede he relentlessly tried—and are fearful he will soon succeed.
...Again, the point is that after three years of mockery insisting Trump has not build his wall, he nonetheless has attempted almost every imaginable method to do it.
And now the invective over the last few months has begun to alter.
If Trump between 2017-19 was mocked as an obsessive Ahab pathetically and in vain chasing his Great White Wall, he now is being redefined as a dangerous xenophobe, whose American version of the Maginot Line may soon become dangerously reified.

• The same ambiguity is true of many of Trump’s other “failures.”

The Right Direction on Trade and China..
What “America First” Looks Like..

For better or worse, we are now fundamentally recalibrating the United States—not just redressing the prior Obama transformation, but the policies of past Republican administrations as well...

• Fear of  Trump’s Success Underneath It All

So we are watching a great experiment, as all of our past de facto assumptions about regulations, immigration, identity politics, trade, workers’ wages, manufacturing, the Middle East, China, Russia, and overseas interventions are all at once under sometimes chaotic reexamination.
We won’t know to what degree Trump won his battles against a now hard-leftist Democratic Party, the NeverTrump Right, the media, the academic and cultural elite, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and the Washington deep state until he finishes his first term.
In 2020 the people will decide whether such risks were worth taking.
But the idea that Trump has “failed,” when the economy is booming, the United States is energy independent, the border is becoming a border again, China is on notice that the past 30 years of appeasement are over, the military is far stronger, and U.S. foreign policy is being radically recalibrated is absolutely absurd.
Impeachment was never about Trump’s failures, but about fears of his perceived successes..."
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