And then what? What are they supposed to do with that realization? Was Kamala Harris supposed to say, "I too hate everything Joe Biden did for the economy, and

And then what? What are they supposed to do with that realization? Was Kamala Harris supposed to say, "I too hate everything Joe Biden did for the economy, and I'm going to do the opposite of that"? That doesn't sound like a winning strategy. Or perhaps "Here's a bunch of programs that I'd like to introduce, including even more student loan forgiveness, especially if you give me a Congress who can work with me?" She did do that. Nobody believes it. Trump promised a few incoherent ideas, and I doubt anybody really gave a moment's thought to whether it's really a good idea to jack up tariffs. All he really needed to be was "not the same as the last guy", despite not having done so great as the previous guy. The fact was that Joe Biden got saddled with an economy that people didn't like. There was little he could do about that, and nothing Harris said would change it. Meanwhile, the next guy will inherit the fundamentally sound economy we've got going. Maybe he'll manage to actively screw it up, though it's really going to mostly succeed or fail based on external events. (Like Ukraine, the loss of Russian fossil fuels, a pandemic, etc. affected the economy for the past four years. Or maybe there'll be an AI boom comparable to the one Clinton got undeserved credit for in the 90s.) So great, you all think you're worse off. There is absolutely no amount of "messaging" that's going to change that, and no set of programs you're suddenly going to believe will fix your problems if they haven't already. And we get what we get. I've got every reason to think it's going to be terrible, and in four years they'll be looking for The Other Other Guy to save them from the bad decisions they made four years ago.