“No president since opinion polling began in 1935 has had such poor numbers in his first year in office … Nor have we seen so unproductive an administration, with more unfilled campaign promises, than Trump’s. Trump also has the unenviable distinction of being the only first-year president to have his administration under scrutiny by a special prosecutor. This has been a year to remember in presidential history.” In Politico, a dozen historians attempt to answer the question: Was 2017 the Craziest Year in US Political History?

+ You can read that as a warmup for 2018 which has started with the familiar notes of Trump tweeting about Crooked Hillary and the retirement announcement from Orrin Hatch (which opens the door for Mitt Romney to finally come to Washington).