After one year in office, Donald Trump is winning bigly. The stock market is up. North Korea and South Korea are talking. Regulations are being swept away. Apple is bringing back hundreds of billions, thanks to corporate tax reform, and promising the creation of 20,000 new jobs. Conservative judges are being appointed to federal courts around the country. And the White House physician just testified that Trump passed his annual checkup with flying colours. Sure, Trump may be a little rough around the edges, but sometimes it takes a brawler to shake up an ossified political system, and that is what the president is doing.
This, more or less, is the gist of a spate of letters featured in Thursday’s New York Times, which turned over its editorial page to missives from Trump’s admirers. A less ebullient and more sophisticated version of this line of events is provided by the Financial Times’ redoubtable Edward Luce, who explained on January 17 that
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