Trump Wants 2024 to Be a Nostalgia Trip. Biden Should Not Take the Bait

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : This year, Trump is asking voters to remember his four years in office as a hallowed time marked by prosperity, peace, and respect for the United States around the world.
64% : "Trump also did better with independent voters on the nostalgia front.
56% : "COVID had come to America, and Trump was president, and hospitals and emergency rooms were overwhelmed....
54% : But last Monday, Trump opened a new front in his battle to make the 2024 campaign a nostalgia trip.
50% : Now that the pandemic is in the rear-view mirror and looks more like an event beyond the control of any officeholder, Trump is bouncing back to where he was prior to its onset.
49% : Populists, like Donald Trump, market what the cultural critic Svetlana Boym calls "restorative nostalgia."
42% : "ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE FOUR YEARS AGO?"Trump hopes that people will answer that question by focusing on the inflation rate and the pre-COVID-19 economy when he was in the White House.
37% : Last week, it became clear that Donald Trump wants the contest to be as much about the past as the future, as much about nostalgia as about hope and aspiration.
34% : "In the CBS poll, 65% said they "remember" that the economy was good under Trump, and only 28% said it was bad.
33% : As the conservative commentator Rich Lowry suggests, "Trump would have won re-election in 2020 if it hadn't been for the pandemic.
26% : But getting the public to focus on Trump what did about the pandemic in March 2020 will not come as easily.
16% : And the toilet paper panic -- remember that one?""Well, Trump tried to downplay the virus," Biden said.

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