News Analysis
While Donald Trump’s Nov. 15 announcement of his entry into the 2024 presidential race has met with a wide range of reactions, from the alarm and condemnation of Democrats and some mainstream conservatives to fervent support from his base, there can be no doubt that of Trump’s myriad stances and policy positions, it is his economic message that resonates most with voters and offers his surest path forward, an economic historian has told The Epoch Times.
In his Tuesday speech, Trump described what he saw as a country doing extremely well at the time he left office at the end of his first term in January 2021. In his telling, America was “ready for its golden age” and stood “at the pinnacle of power, prosperity, and prestige, towering above its rivals” and enjoying an economy in which “inflation was nonexistent” and the country “had finally achieved the impossible dream of American energy independence.”…