Since Jimmy Carter’s malaise speech, politicians are very hyper aware that talking in gloom and doom terms is an election loser. So, the strategy is to talk things up. It is an overstatement to say that the economy is doing bad. But there’s a lot of headwinds that this administration is putting in place to say nothing of rising inflation
But if you tell people how wonderful things are and they don’t see it, you start looking more and more like your disconnected and out of touch