You are probably better off than you were four years ago.
Not unless you like pandemics, mass death, mass unemployment, and the shutdown of much in-person work, educational and social activity. It was also a tumultuous political time: an election year, with record-breaking protests following the murderof George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, but also a wave of violence and property damage in many cities.
So it might seem strange that Donald Trump is reprising Ronald Reagan by literally asking voterswhether they are better off than they were four years ago. Four years ago was 2020, one of the most miserable years in modern American history.