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Americans Are Unequivocally Better Off Than One Year Ago

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, January 08 2026

As the Trump Administration completes its first year back in office with a flawless military extraction and arrest of criminal Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro, are Americans better off today than they were one year ago? Unequivocally yes, and there’s frankly no reasonable counterargument. Let’s start with matters of literal life and death. As even anti-Trump mainstream media conceded, the United States ended the year 2025 experiencing the largest one-year drop in murders ever recorded: Based on a sampling of preliminary crime statistics…

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