Bret: Trump also has been able to get only a fraction of his agenda through Congress. The wall with Mexico is largely unbuilt. We still take in hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year, including from majority-Muslim countries (though the numbers are declining). Our sanctions on Russia are still in place, and we haven’t abandoned NATO. But I still wish Trump had never been elected in the first place.

Gail: We’ll agree on that forever.

Bret: Let’s assume President Sanders got just one-third of his agenda through Congress. What would that mean? Dramatic cuts in defense spending that would leave us and our allies even more vulnerable to Russian or Chinese aggression. One or two huge new government spending programs that would weigh on fiscal balance sheets for generations. Punitive tax increases on billionaires, who have the means and the savvy to move their assets offshore, and major tax hikes on people who aren’t anywhere near as rich, and who can’t avoid taxes. Declining incentives for investment; ever-growing incentives for political corruption as a way of gaining favors from the state.

On the plus side, however, we’d be seeing much more of Larry David on “Saturday Night Live.”

Gail: Or … it would mean a turnaround on the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy, which have made the gap between the richest one percent and the bottom 99 even more appalling.

Cutting the defense budget doesn’t mean making the country weaker. It’s stuffed with pork — expensive and unnecessary projects that please only the egos in the Pentagon and politicians pushing for new spending in their districts. Personally I’d rather go with Sanders or Warren and put the money in schools.

Bret: The one bright spot of the Trump years is an economy that has defied doomsayers and surpassed expectations with historically low unemployment and excellent stock-market returns. Those aren’t small things, most of all to people who live at the margins or outside of the labor market, including people nearing retirement and looking expectantly at their portfolios.

Gail: Some of us believe he’s just coasting off the Obama recovery. And people who worry about deficits must notice that ours is exploding from the lost revenue caused by his tax cuts. But go on.

Bret: If Trump just wired his mouth shut and bandaged his fingers for the next 10 months to keep him from saying or tweeting something awful, he could just ride the economic numbers to victory.