They made us wait to the very end, but Trump and the GOP made 2017 a year of big conservative policy achievements

It seems silly that we always have to get this out of the way first, but fine, let's get it out of the way. Conservatives didn't get everything they wanted in the first year of the Trump presidency. I suppose as long as we still have a progressive tax code, and a Department of Education, and a spot for CNN on major cable systems, we'll have to say that. But if you're like most people, you look at an agenda as a list of things you accomplish one at a time. You achieve one and then you move on to the next one. The more of them you can do in a short time, the better, of course. But it takes time and relentless determination to get as many of them done as you can. Conservatives have been in the policy wilderness for awhile. The Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 were helpful to the economy and to taxpayers, but they were really just slight downward adjustments of the rates in a tax code that otherwise maintained its same structure. It wasn't a comprehensive reform. We also got a ban on partial-birth abortion from Bush. And some of us still think it's a good thing that Saddam Hussein was deposed.