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You're still ignoring the "special circumstances" for the convict era, but including it in the Biden era. Sure, prices were lower 5 years ago. In most periods in our history, if you look at prices 5 years prior, they will be lower. The nature of inflation.
That black box of COVID has numerous effects, some of them economic. How has the Biden team dealt with the aftermath? Quite well. I don't want to sound like a broken record, but more jobs, inflation steadily decreasing (note that deflation would probably be bad, and that's the only way prices will drop significantly), higher wages for many workers, etc, etc. So I still have to answer, 'yes', it's better today than four years ago.
Is it better today than 10 years ago? Maybe not. I wouldn't mind going back to the Obama era. But that, of course, isn't the rhetorical device.
IMHO, that device only works if either a) it's actually true, or b) people aren't aware enough to realize it isn't true.
The border is a separate thing, and a legitimate talking point. The convict and his Goebbels-like side kick (Miller) were inhuman in that regard. Biden reversed a lot of that, and rightly so. But he probably didn't take the border as seriously as he should have. Or maybe, as you often say, he couldn't tackle everything at once, and so had to prioritize. Economy first, border fourth or fifth. There can be valid debate on that ranking.
