Pakistan, Feb. 10 -- In the 1980 election Ronald Reagan asked the blockbuster political question that would obliterate Jimmy Carter's candidacy. "Are you better off now than you were four years ago?" In the 2024 election, no doubt that question will be resurrected by Republicans.

But let's reverse that. Suppose Donald Trump won in 2020. Would Americans be worse or better off than four years ago under a second Trump term? Of course, 3/4 of Americans would be pleased that neither Trump nor Joe Biden would be on the ticket in 2024 unless Trump was attempting to repeal the term limiting 22nd Amendment. Assuming that was not the case, a good question is who would have been the Democratic and Republican candidates in 2024? One wonders.

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