The first is former President Trump, who painted a vivid picture of an America sliding into chaos for the Conservative Political Action Conference last month. The second is President Biden, extolling the nation’s resilience in his State of the Union address last week. And he charges that Trump would “pull America back to the past” by restricting abortion rights and other freedoms. “We can fight about fixing the border or we can fix it,” Biden said in his State of the Union address. If Biden’s sounds over-optimistic, Trump’s sounds cartoonishly dystopian, out of sync with the reality that the economy is genuinely improving.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 12, 2024 14:51 UTC