politics

Jobs down.
GDP down
Consumption down. 
Inflation up. 

Winning!

If all those metrics were inverted and Trump claimed it was all him and none of Biden's efforts, would you agree?

The truth is it's a bit more muddy than we would like to admit 

Not excusing Trump's blatant lies btw

All of these metrics were way better and trending fine until he decided to implement an economically illiterate policy.

From what little macro I know, some of the trade imbalances with China would have caused global reordering under any other US presidency. The trend was not fine

China continues to have "developing nation" trade agreements w the world and abusing it to gain more power

We just have an accelerated problem under Trump

All that said, I think a lot of damage has been done and US exceptionalism will clearly be tested

1) when China is the leading manufacturer of every hard good and (increasingly digitally relevant ones) is that the political conditions you consider "trending fine?"

2) > Our country is in debt because of war; not trade. 

Agreed, Biden helped get us in one and tried to sustain it. Trump seems to be against it

The trade imbalances are irrelevant as long as they exclude digital services which is our most dominant industry. 

We export bits and bytes and import raw materials and hard goods. 

Unfortunately digital services are included in the trade deficit calculation. 

Our country is in debt because of war; not trade. We could have restored critical industries without hurting the rest of the country.