Like Ronald Reagan in 1980, former President Donald Trump often asks a question on the campaign trail: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”
Unlike Reagan 44 years ago, Trump is posing this as someone who has already served a term in the White House. It fits in with another of his campaign slogans: President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris broke it, Trump will fix it.
The line drives Democrats crazy. Exactly four years ago, the country was suffering through a pandemic. Trump’s management of COVID-19 and the economic impact of various virus mitigation efforts cost him a second consecutive term, but now he is back and possibly on the cusp of returning to the Oval Office for four more years.
Elections are about the future, not the past. But whether Trump or Harris wins will affect how voters remember 2020 years from now. The chaotic summer of
