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Amid the wide spectrum of analysts assessing the first year of Donald Trump presidency, I thought I'd weigh in with some thoughts on how that grading process is going.

Let's stipulate that most Americans left-of-center are experiencing some degree of despair. I feel their pain. In fact, I felt it directly during 16 of the last 25 years, when I too had to endure presidencies I did not vote for.

Predictably, there are also Trump loyalists who give him straight As on everything, with no demerits for the occasional unfortunate tweet or the stray moment of decorum beneath the office.

That's not me. While I am beyond pleased to welcome the most conservative agenda since President Ronald Reagan, I have not been a fan of some of the chapters that have required me to say "That's just Trump being Trump." The presidency does not need unforced errors like the recent vulgar remarkabout other countries, if he actually said it.

But here's the phenomenon of the moment: a lot of conservatives are so discombobulated by their stylistic gripes with Trump that they are blind to what has happened in one short year: the achievement of more conservative goals than virtually any other 2016 GOP candidate could have dreamed of.

My initial choice was Sen. Ted Cruz, on the logic that he would dismantle the Obama agenda with the skill of a surgeon. It now seems that what was needed was not a scalpel but a sledgehammer. Trump is that sledgehammer, and he has delivered magnificent blows to our punitive tax system, our suffocating regulatory state and to the political correctness that endangers religious freedom. And that's just for starters.

Those blows have claimed some collateral damage. His behavior has not always been mannerly. His words have not always been well-chosen. His methods have not always been conventional.

But if I were to allow that to mitigate or even outweigh the sheer joy of this first year's results, I'd be out of my mind.

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Trump is a sledgehammer dismantling the Obama agenda ...