Well, the clavineless holidays are almost upon us.

After this week, this podcast will be over until next year,

and you'll be left with nothing but the celebration of God's incarnation on earth

and the salvation of all humanity.

Which, okay, is also pretty good.

So let's take a look back at 2017, a year in which I made one remarkably accurate prediction of the future,

namely that no one can predict the future.

After an election that took almost everyone by complete surprise,

the left told us that Donald Trump was going to be worse than Hitler, and the right told us that his outlandish personality would destroy the conservative movement.

Even I, my own remarkable self, thought Trump was going to be no more than a mediocre Democrat president.

Instead, Donald Trump, a political neophyte, a New York loudmouth who plays fast and loose with the truth,

a massive egotist, and a not altogether pleasant human being,

has delivered conservatives one of the greatest years in living memory,

and has made our government more moral in the process.

That this has been a great year for conservatives is undeniable.

The economy is in high gear, stocks are up, unemployment is down,

energy production is up, business expansion is up, and so on.

ISIS, which took more than 23,000 square miles of territory

after Obama left Iraq and refused to intervene in Syria,

is now in control of a Porta San in a book of matches.

19 constitutionalist judges have been appointed, and 40 more have been nominated.

The biggest regulatory rollback in American history has been launched,

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