"Europe’s three most powerful leaders—Angela Merkel of Germany, Emmanuel
Macron of France, and Theresa May of the United Kingdom—have worse
approval ratings than the embattled Donald Trump."
https://www.amgreatness.com/2019/01/02/actually-2018-was-a-pretty-good-year/
2018 was a pretty good year. From the article:
- America is now the world’s largest oil producer. The scary old
energy-related phraseology of the last half-century—”energy crisis,”
“peak oil,” “oil embargo”—no longer exists.
- Near-total energy self-sufficiency means the United States is no
longer strategically leveraged by the Middle East
- After withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, the United States
exceeded the annual percentage of carbon reductions of most countries
that are part of the agreement.
- North Korea and the United States did not go to war. Instead, North
Korea has stopped its provocative nuclear testing and its launching of
ballistic missiles over the territory of its neighbors.
- Despite all the Trump bluster, NATO and NAFTA did not quite implode.
Rather, allies and partners agreed to renegotiate past commitments and
agreements on terms more favorable to the U.S.
- In 2018, unemployment fell to a near-record peacetime low of 3.7
percent. That’s the lowest U.S. unemployment rate since 1969. Black
unemployment hit an all-time low in 2018. F
- The poverty rate is also near a historic low, and household income
increased. There are about 8 million fewer Americans living below the
poverty line than there were eight years ago. Since January 2017, more
than 3 million Americans have gone off so-called food stamps.
"In sum, the more media pundits claimed that America was on the brink of
disaster in 2018, the more Americans became prosperous and secure."
But yeah, Republicans are evil and stupid. Just don't look too hard at
the results.