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I don't think most people know what a recession is, and things getting more expensive and there being increased disruption among service workers people depend on probably felt like one.

Similarly one day historians will look back at the Biden period and note we were two votes shy of ending child poverty in the US but the fear that was causing eggs to cost $1 more per dozen proved too much

... when it was originally too little supply brought about by interrupted production, slow to restart distribution, and necessary sanctions against an aggressive state.

But average wage increase doesn't mean everyone has more money -- not everyone is employed, not everyone who is employed is in an industry with rising wages, etc -- but everyone has less money when energy and food prices rise.

I don't think you can fairly judge the popularity of Biden's economy when there was rampant inflation driven by the pandemic and no cheerleader. You need someone at the bully pulpit shaping the narrative and the man was a zombie.

lot of lefty people have an a priori belief that the US economy is bad and cannot ever improve

but also, when asked, people thought that unemployment was high and that we were in a recession so the finding still holds: even fantasy recessions are unpopular

What they wanted was for exiting a global pandemic to be completely painless, for a billion people returning to their lives at once to cause 0% inflation, and for trillions in covid benefits to go on indefinitely, none of which was going to happen.

"Inequality-reducing labor market" is popular among those who care. Most, the vast majority of people, don't care. I will also bet that no more than 3% of the population actually knows that.

I’m not sure we actually know what people want because we didn’t have a capable president working to seek the economy to the American people.

Feels like the pubic debates for the 2010 midterms were about undeserving people getting bailouts (which was absurd) and an incoherent debate about the ACA (also absurd, but in different ways)

A recession killing their run is dependent on it becoming the theme and being tied to them. I doubt the media has the will to do either of those things. Something else will be the problem of the day. Obstruction will be the cause, not the implemented policies.