I never said people were always upset and anxious. I said a lot of people have been upset and anxious since at latest 2016, and it's obviously true. 1/

There are all kinds of "measures if economic optimism", but we had a national debate over deaths of despair during that period, and an election in 2020 where one major political party's primaries were devoted very disproportionately to the cost of health care. 2/

Trump's first term may not be by some measures the worst of times economically, but we've been in a period of widely expressed dissatisfaction and disillusionment with the US economy since at least the financial crisis, through the volatility of the business cycle. /fin