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And yes, welcome back to the Conservative Conscience.

This is your host, Daniel Horowitz. Welcome back to the New Year.

Unbelievably, it's January 2nd, 2018. I can't believe it's 2018 already.

Gosh, last year was probably the quickest year of my life.

I don't know about you guys, but as I get older and just embroiled in work and kids and gosh, the time just flies on a person.

But really refreshed from this vacation.

It's probably one of the first times in recent memory I feel just positive, so much positive energy coming back.

I know I'm dubbed the Profit of Lamentations by both my detractors and my supporters.

But I actually have a lot of good news.

And while we're certainly going to cover in the coming years,

all the failures of Congress, of this administration, of our system of governance,

all the positive ideas we have, I think it's important to first reflect on just the last couple of weeks that the president has really ended the year on a positive trajectory.

You know, for much of the year, we focused on the fact that we're getting all the liabilities of Trump's persona and character, but really none of the benefits.

But I think that has changed a lot.

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