As a conservative woman at USA TODAY, I'm most often told I'm a partisan hack or a MAGA propagandist (and worse), even though I've criticized President Donald Trump plenty.

But of course I'm rooting for Trump's success. Why wouldn't I? Given that most major mainstream media outlets have a leftist bias, I am eager to find and show positive changes the president has made. That's not propaganda ‒ that's truth.

From Election Day to the present day, critics predicted that in 2025, Trump would upend constitutional norms and provoke the demise of our democracy. He disappointed them in many ways, but people preached doom and gloom that never came.

From the moment Trump began his second term, we saw........

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