I was a Trump skeptic but his second-term wins made me a believer

Let’s admit it: Donald Trump’s second term so far has been a wild success.I’m surprised to find myself standing up as a Trump defender — and more surprised still that so few others seem motivated to do it.After all, I still don’t own a MAGA hat, and my vote for him in 2024 was my first.I spent years as a Trump skeptic, voting third party in 2016 and not casting a presidential ballot at all in 2020.Yes, I’m embarrassed to admit I was one of those “what’s the difference, man” dummies.Then I saw what happened through four damaging years of President Joe Biden’s misbegotten administration.Millions of people came in unchecked at our southern border, and Biden pretended he couldn’t do anything about it.Cities deteriorated, Sen.Chuck Schumer said they should all get a path to citizenship, and every Democrat running for president in 2020 raised their hand to give them free health care.Inflation hit over 9% because of unchecked government spending.The Biden administration extended Title IX, the federal civil rights law protecting women, to include men pretending to be women.His toadies and their media friends spent four years pretending Biden was just fine before finally having to admit he wasn’t.And so on.All this came before the far-left Democratic Socialists of America took over the Democratic Party.What happens when a party run by people who want to close prisons, end capitalism and open borders gets into power?I’m not looking forward to finding out.But beyond the Democrats’ proven awfulness, the second Trump administration has had a run of achievements that too many take for granted.This president basically solved our border crisis overnight — and did it so quickly that many Americans have already forgotten how bad things were.He’s eliminated nearly $1 billion in spending on DEI and illegal-immigrant programs — and new evidence shows Elon Musk’s DOGE cut 12% of the wasteful federal workforce without the country missing a beat.A Trump...