This weekend, the Trump administration produced: an American hostage released by Hamas; a provisional trade agreement with China that sent the Dow soaring over 1,000 points today; renewed negotiations between Russian and Ukraine; a cease-fire agreement between India and Pakistan; and an executive order that promises to reduce prescription-drug prices. Today, Mr. Trump fielded questions from the press for an hour before getting on Air Force One to fly to Saudi Arabia to finalize a Saudi commitment to invest up to $1 trillion in U.S. companies over four years, building on a pledged $600 billion.
The Democrats, meanwhile, rioted in an ICE facility in Newark, New Jersey, physically attacking ICE officers to show their support for illegal immigrants. For the moment, at least, the faction that held near-absolute power until very recently now seem beaten, and desperate.
After what we’ve been through in America in recent years, I think we could be forgiven for finding it all positively exhilarating. But a word of caution is in order: in eighteen months the Democrats are likely to regain the House — because there still a great many are people who will vote for them, or against Trump, no matter what — and they will immediately put as much sand in the gears as they can manage, including impeaching Mr. Trump as their first order of business.
The window of opportunity for dynamic action that we are enjoying right now may be briefer than we think. We can count on the Democrats, meanwhile, to do everything they can to use the courts, and whatever else they can lay their hands on, to break this momentum and drag things out. It is absolutely essential that Mr. Trump keep one boot on their necks, and the other on the gas.