Ok. Polices still matter more. The reason people have suffered the past 4 years ties directly back to f#ckwad Democrats and their passing of 4 trillion new dollars. I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016 or 2020. I will in November because he embraced Bitcoin.
I give Obama, Trump, and Biden's policy decisions all a fair amount of credit for the good and bad situations we're in.
With regards to inflation, and the overall economy...
Obama's Presidency stabilized an economy that was on the brink of an actual depression. But in doing so, there were social safety nets created, that were to have some longer lasting impacts on the economy.
Trump benefitted greatly from the stabilized economy that Obama's admin handed off to him. Trump's policies accelerated growth in some areas, for sure. But there were also longer lasting consequences that his decisions were always going to have to be dealt with. He didn't do anything to cut spending when he could have...and his Tax changes helped exacerbate the deficit issues we've been seeing since Clinton.
Then Covid happened. No one could have predicted or prepared for it adequately. Trumps response was an enormous part of the current situation we're in financially. I would contend that similar to Obama's bail outs in 08/09, Trumps own bailouts (PPE), were a natural and probably necessary reaction. But the impacts those had on our economy, along with prior tariffs, and his "choice" to not take advantage of the strong economic factors to help with the deficit...all that began the inflation issues.
Then Biden got to office. Somehow, he had to pull us out of Covid. The policies he used were effective in that, but obviously they were like throwing gasoline on a fire with regards to inflation. I don't remember a ton of people blasting him for his early efforts though, when they were leading to record levels of business and profits. But like Trump, I think he took the easier way out to gain favor with his people by going too far with his safety net measures.
Right, wrong, or indifferent, it seems like we're slowly starting to move back in the right direction with regards to inflation. Does Biden deserve any credit for that? I tend to think not really. But then, I don't give him nearly as much of the total blame as many on here do. I still think a very, very big majority if our inflation issues are still because of Covid, and the supply and overall business change issues Covid caused.
Having said ALL this...I dearly wish the GOP were nominating a normal, fiscally conservative candidate at the top of the ballot this year. And I fully intend to vote for candidates down ballot that appear to be smart, solid, and fiscally responsible candidates. I suspect I'll find more of them on the GOP side of the tickets, like most years.