In fact, every single economic indicator is currently better than 2019.
One thing you can say that may be true is that voters are upset because they remember inflation from 2021-22 and are still reacting to it. Or that they don't like high interest rates. And housing prices are bad in blue states and that is the local governments' fault.
But one thing we see from US voters is that R voters claim the economy is bad under a D president and immediately switch to claiming it's good under an R president. So I think you should consider those people are lying.
No, it's about the same as 2019:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
Inflation is over and done with. We even fixed income inequality; it's sharply reduced since 2019:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w31010
In fact, every single economic indicator is currently better than 2019.
One thing you can say that may be true is that voters are upset because they remember inflation from 2021-22 and are still reacting to it. Or that they don't like high interest rates. And housing prices are bad in blue states and that is the local governments' fault.
But one thing we see from US voters is that R voters claim the economy is bad under a D president and immediately switch to claiming it's good under an R president. So I think you should consider those people are lying.