Americans got hope, change

Re: The eight wonders on Donald Trump’s world. Andrew Coyne, March 8 I can sympathize with Andrew Co yne’ s often-expressed frustration with Donald Trump, as I have similar feelings about Justin Trudeau.

The fact that the policy failures of Trudeau’s sometimes comic dalliance with the national leadership are what many of us expected is small consolation, but poor Mr. Coyne doesn’t even have that.

And so, rather than comment on GDP exceeding three per cent, record l ow unemployment, rising wages, increased business investment, a soaring stock market, re-established U. S. leadership abroad or any other of the mostly unpredicted successful results of Trump’s policies, Mr. Coyne relieves his frustration by making sure we are fully informed on the critical issue of personnel problems in the White House.

Having declared U. S. capitulation to North Korea while lamenting the defeat of Hillary Clinton and having guaranteed a nuclear North Korea while assuring us that Trump is “not insane; he’s just a fool,” I expect Mr. Coyne will have difficulty commenting on what could be the most significant foreign- policy breakthrough in decades if Kim Jong Un is serious about his intentions to denuclearize.

If his frustration with Trump’s success continues for a few years, eventually even Mr. Coyne may be inclined to acknowledge that Americans finally got some real hope and change.