One thing the self anointed political "progressives" have gotten wrong is the notion that leaders and governments around the world are making continuing progress toward democratic norms like the rule of law, constitutional freedoms, judicial independence, a free press and free speech and assembly and free and fair elections at proscribed intervals.

The reality is that freedom has recently taken significant backward steps in such major powers as Russia, China and South Africa.  

Given Trump's unusual presidential persona and style, some will even claim this applies to the US.  

But in reality, the majority of entrenched interests in the US including the media, the legal community, the Democrats and their donors and proxies, the unions and government bureaucracies and others have conjoined to thwart the new president in pursuing most of the agenda he was democratically elected to implement.  

So freedom still reigns in the US and other mature democracies and we celebrate this.