It was just a couple of months ago when Donald Trump launched a bizarre offensive against Brian Kemp, Georgia’s incumbent Republican governor, for no particular reason. The former president slammed Kemp as a “bad guy,” “disloyal” and “Little Brian.” At an event in the Peachtree State, Trump also targeted the governor’s wife and goaded his followers into booing their home state’s GOP governor.
More important, many Americans are getting sizable pay raises, and middle-class wealth has surged to record levels. We are living through one of the best economic years of many people’s lifetimes.” The same day, Politico described the status quo as “a dream economy.” Soon after, The Economist described the U.S. economy as “the envy of the world,” adding that the American economy “has left other rich countries in the dust.