https://www.conference-board.org/topics/consumer-confidence

Notice in the above that consumer confidence was higher in 2018 and 2019 (both pre-pandemic Trump years), than anytime afterwards except for a short blip around June 2021.

I believe this explains why so many idiots told pollsters pre-election that things were better "4 years ago" than now -- they were remembering the pre-pandemic years, not literally 4 years previous which was deep in the 2020 Covid max year, e.g. "4 years ago" from an October 2024 poll was October 2020, which was a very bad time economically (as reflected in the consumer confidence index in 2020).

Oops, I meant to reply to thread/OP, sorry.