I can attest from my own experience that many of those facts apply to myself today after living 6 years under the tyrant’s rule. Prior to that time life was so much different, better and stable
Things were crappy before he was elected, but he certainly has made it worse. We are watching the ripple effect of a lost new generation of “middle class” Americans, as young people today shy from having children and buying homes in which to raise them. The government’s response (importing a foreign middle class) doesn’t do much to address it.