A number that stunned me in the NYT/Siena poll: 42% of people said that the years Donald Trump was president were "mostly good" for America. Just 33% said they were "mostly bad." It speaks to the power of nostalgia -- and how we as humans tend to remember the good stuff and block out the bad.
Objectively, the Trump years were very tough on Americans. 350,000 Americans died of Covid-19 in 2020. Donald Trump tried to use the power of the presidency to overturn an election. The economy tanked. And yet....
600,000 Americans died of COVID under Biden - the difference between those and the 300,000 who died under Trump? The media like you stopped counting them under Biden and stopped showing the daily death tolls. So if America is misremembering anything, it’s that, and if they don’t hold Biden accountable for twice as many COVID deaths under democrat leadership, it’s because of your propaganda that hid those deaths under Biden.
@ChrisCillizza 70 million people still voted for the guy in 2020, so you should perhaps go back and ask 70 million people why they did that in the tail end of the Covid situation. As for your analysis, it's not even an analysis, it's a tank of copium being furiously inhaled.
@ChrisCillizza My family and I were much better off under Trump.
@ChrisCillizza Yes, there was a lot of good stuff about 2017-2019 to remember. Nothing since January 20, 2021, of course.