{"id":11591,"date":"2019-01-07T23:37:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T07:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11591"},"modified":"2019-01-07T23:37:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T07:37:19","slug":"actually-2018-was-a-pretty-good-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/actually-2018-was-a-pretty-good-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Actually, 2018 Was a Pretty Good Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n<p>The year 2018 will be deplored by pundits as a bad year of more unpredictable Donald Trump, headlined by wild stock market gyrations, the melodramas of the Robert Mueller investigation, and the musical-chair tenures of officials in the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n<p>The government is still shut down. Talk of impeachment by the newly Democrat-controlled House of Representatives is in the air. Seemingly every day there are sensational breakthroughs, scandals, and bombshells that race through social media and the Internet\u2014only to be forgotten by the next day.<\/p>\n<p>In truth, aside from the Washington hysterias, 2018 was a most successful year for Americans.<\/p>\n<p>In December, the United States reached a staggering level of oil production, pumping some 11.6 million barrels per day. For the first time since 1973, America is now the world\u2019s largest oil producer<\/p>\n<p>Since Trump took office, the United States has increased its oil production by nearly 3 million barrels per day, largely as the result of fewer regulations, more federal leasing, and the continuing brilliance of American frackers and horizontal drillers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/01\/02\/actually-2018-was-a-pretty-good-year\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The year 2018 will be deplored by pundits as a bad year of more unpredictable Donald Trump, headlined by wild stock market gyrations, the melodramas of the Robert Mueller investigation, and the musical-chair tenures of officials in the Trump Administration. The government is still shut down. Talk of impeachment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1161,1139,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-30X","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11620,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-mueller-squirrel-case\/","url_meta":{"origin":11591,"position":0},"title":"The Mueller Squirrel Case","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 23, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Special Counsel Robert Mueller recently indicted yet another peripheral character in his Trump probe, Russian attorney Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, for alleged money laundering in a matter quite separate from Trump. Like almost all of Mueller\u2019s indictments of the past 20 months, the charges against\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Donald Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11817,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/progressives-face-a-bleak-post-mueller-landscape\/","url_meta":{"origin":11591,"position":1},"title":"Progressives Face a Bleak Post-Mueller Landscape","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 9, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Democrats have grown infuriated by Attorney General William Barr\u2019s indifference to their hysteria over the Trump-Russia collusion narrative. Barr recently released a brief summary of special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s conclusions that Donald Trump did not collude with the Russians to warp the 2016 election.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Donald Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11139,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/mueller-at-the-crossroads\/","url_meta":{"origin":11591,"position":2},"title":"Mueller at the Crossroads","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 12, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Robert Mueller was appointed special counsel in May 2017 in reaction to a media still gripped by near hysteria over the inexplicable defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. For nearly a year before Mueller\u2019s appointment, leaks had spread about collusion between\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Donald Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11167,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-double-standards-of-the-mueller-investigation\/","url_meta":{"origin":11591,"position":3},"title":"The Double Standards of the Mueller Investigation","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 26, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The more Mueller searches for hypothetical lawbreaking, the more he ignores the actual lawbreakers. The country is about to witness an investigatory train wreck. In one direction, Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation train is looking for any conceivable thing that President Donald Trump\u2019s campaign\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Donald Trump&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Donald Trump","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/donald-trump\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11798,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/mueller-investigation-was-driven-by-pious-hypocrisy\/","url_meta":{"origin":11591,"position":4},"title":"Mueller Investigation Was Driven by Pious Hypocrisy","author":"victorhanson","date":"April 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s two-year, $30 million, 448-page report did not find collusion between Donald Trump and Russia. Despite compiling private allegations of loud and obnoxious Trump behavior, Mueller also concluded that there was not any actionable case of obstruction of justice by the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mueller&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mueller","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/mueller\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11012,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-paradoxes-of-the-mueller-investigation\/","url_meta":{"origin":11591,"position":5},"title":"The Paradoxes of the Mueller Investigation","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review They are numerous, and none of them are good news for President Trump\u2019s opponents. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has indicted 13 Russian nationals for allegedly conspiring to sow confusion in the 2016 presidential election. 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