General Discussion

Except that I am not sure that there was a way to do it better.

There were only two options.

1. Try to convince people it was better than it looked

2. Acknowledge it was bad on our watch.

Yes #1 was a loser but #2 could have been even worse. Sure there could be a nuanced discussion that it could have been a whole lot worse and we managed through what by any accounts could have been a major recession. But nuanced conversations in politics are pretty much worthless.

By the way, all of this is doubly true so for young voters. So when people start wondering about the erosion of support in the -25 age, you have to see life through their eyes with bad wages, big debt and high costs. Many in that generation are pessimistic about the future for a lot of reasons.