Frankly, he’s doing better than any other modern era Republican. Didn’t hurt that Dirty Harry (Reid) paved the way for the destruction of the Liberals hold on the judiciary. Emphasis mine – and note that at the bottom of this quote:
The media remains so caught up with the president’s tweets that it has missed Mr. Trump’s project to transform the rest of the federal judiciary. The president is stocking the courts with a class of brilliant young textualists bearing little relation to even their Reagan or Bush predecessors. Mr. Trump’s nastygrams to Bob Corker will be a distant memory next week. Notre Dame law professor Amy Coney Barrett’s influence on the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals could still be going strong 40 years from now.

