The Democrats’ reward for steering the economy out of the post-pandemic economic crisis will be watching their opponent claim credit for the prosperity that their work created—an economy unencumbered by inflation and the high interest rates once needed to tame it. If Trump seems popular now, he will likely be much more popular in a year.
I’m not going to say it’s always helpful to read Adam Sewer after things like this, but he’s always good and thoughtfully saying how things are, why they are, and what comes next.