All you need to know is the source and cause of this abnormal “normal” is the $4 trillion mostly unconstitutional federal government which must be cut by 80% and put back into its constitutional cage. No more abnormal normal. Instead a free, happy, and healthy society.
The economy is in the doldrums because nearly everyone is paying today for the bills they ran up over the past decades - and further dampened by the prospect of society as a whole having to pay the debt accumulated by the fed to pay for today.