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Trump is the worst it's been, but I can't remember a time when things were good. It's been one crisis to the next.
I think there's been maybe a 5 year period where the US wasn't in a major conflict, and even then we were bombing random countries. After 08 the economy has basically always felt on the brink of collapse. Wages stagnate, housing is unaffordable, and basically every "ladder" to a better life it gone. Sprinkle in the impending climate collapse and yeah that's been basically life.
It's disingenuous to act like anything was even okay before Trump. He's just the final stage of a decades long collapse