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Everything is pretty much hunky dory, President Barack Obama said in his farewell speech, yet, in his inaugural speech, President Donald Trump said very nearly the opposite. Trump is right. For all that’s going well, too much is going terribly wrong, but don’t count this as pessimism: Trump promises change. Maybe he won’t accomplish his goals, and some of his methods may be amiss, but the inauguration was enough to lift all but the most forlorn spirits, speaking to what does in fact remain wonderful about these United States. Here was our peaceful transfer of power, something kept in place by acknowledged legitimacy.