Merely need to compare the business birth/death rates of the two administrations to see the truth.
At least during the Reagan administration, folks believed the future was bright. Now, the destructive policies of Communitarian redistribution that have been proven a failure by history is now our bleak future.
You’ve hit on something. I remember as a high school student in the late 70’s wondering what job I could get in such a horrific economy.
Then my first presidential vote went to RR. There was never so much optimism at the time after such a horrible decade of the 70’s. Especially Carter’s rein.
Now, I have the same feeling I had in the late 70’s for the past 6 years and there is really is no RR waiting in the wings. Some are close though. Times have changed and a different generation is running things now. We also have a horrendously uninformed electorate.