Biden not fooling voters on economy

If you want to explain to a puzzled left-leaning writer like the Atlantic’s Annie Lowrey why most voters this year rate the economy during Donald Trump’s presidency more favorably than that during President Joe Biden’s, you might start with a pair of simple charts.

Lowrey said the Biden years have seen “the strongest economy the United States has ever experienced.” She cited an unemployment rate below 4%, wage growth higher “than at any point during the Obama presidency,” and “stronger pay increases” than any in the last 50 years. Inflation, she noted defensively, “has cooled off considerably.”

All well and good, and you can hear similar thoughts from Democratic economists and Biden administration spokesmen. Together, sometimes, with suggestions that many voters are, well, just not knowledgeable or sophisticated enough to appreciate the bounty the administration’s policies have produced.