Sorry but no, it doesn't count as him "still winning" if he accomplishes a thing that every president does and that was inevitable the moment he won the election. If you're going to declare appointing a Supreme Court Justice to be a win, why not go ahead and declare every Cabinet appointment as a win too? If you're gonna be disingenuous about it might as well tally every win you can. I'm not being disingenuous about anything. Scalia passed away. Dems wanted Obama's pick, Garland but in the end got Trump's pick Gorsuch. Again, you can disagree with the appointment but that's a win for him regardless. That another Republican would have appointed the same guy has little to do with the analysis.
I agree with you about the market and jobs. I wasn't trying to say it's continuing to grow because of Obama, I was just pointing out that whatever credit you want to give to Trump for those things, you have to give tenfold to Obama. I disagree with the tenfold bit, but I agree that the market bounce back has much to do with Obama. That it hasn't course corrected due to, what many people refer to as a madman in the white house, but has in fact continue to grow is again a win for him. Like I said its been almost a year. He was wrong to claim he had much to do with the stock market in march. Its over a year since he was elected. He deserves credit.
I appreciate your thoughts, and I think some of the things you listed can be counted as positives of the Trump presidency for some. But the article wasn't saying that Trump is "still winning" because he is doing things that a president can do or because the economy continues to hum along. The premise was that Trump is "still winning" because of identity politics or something (wasn't entirely clear). How have the left's identity politics enabled the "wins" you listed? I think the author's point was that Trump continues to be empowered because his adversaries are picking the wrong battles, but the things you listed are things that could have happened even if Trump's approval rating was at 5% and was on the verge of an impeachment conviction. Yeah, I was responding to someone's question or assertion that Trump hasn't had any definable wins. I think the identity politics have little affect on anything which is why much of America is uninterested in them. Hence, Trump. I also think if Dems want to continue doubling down and keep referring to everything Trump does as racist or homophobic or misogynistic or Islamophobic and then runs a far left candidate they'll be looking at another 4 years of Trump in 2020. I'm not support of that, but I see it going that way.