NEWT SPEAKS – AT 12:31 P.M. ET:  Newt Gingrich continues to be one of the great rhetorical voices among conservatives.  He probably knows more than anyone else about politics, and has great clarity of thought.  He summarizes Trump's first year in office.  From Fox: 

Here’s my assessment of President Trump as we mark the first anniversary of his inauguration Saturday: I have known nine presidents, beginning with President Richard Nixon. Of those nine, the only one who was as effective as President Trump in his first year was President Ronald Reagan.

That judgment may surprise a lot of people, because the opposition in the news media and among the left-wing “resistance” has been so strong and one-sided that they have consistently misrepresented and maligned President Trump and his administration.

This effort has produced a distorted, minimized view of what has been accomplished by this remarkably energetic and controversial commander-in-chief. 

COMMENT:  Please read the whole thing.  It's impossible to summarize it well.  Whether you like him or not, and we did not support him in the primaries, President Trump has become one of the most consequential presidents of our time. 

When President Reagan was elected in 1980, one Democratic sage called him "an amiable dunce."  Amiable, he was.  Dunce he was not.  In 1984, Reagan carried 49 states.

Are we seeing a repeat?  Too early to say, but I'm optimistic.

January 21, 2018