To radind,
Nothing will be resolved in your mind in 2024. If you cannot make a determination now, you won't be able to then either. History does not play out as people expect it to.
We DID get a panic in 2008, first one since the early 1930's. Obama DID occupy the position of FDR. As far as healing the economy goes, Obama has probably done better in his two terms as FDR did in his first two. Obama failed to restore prosperity, but did FDR. The solution to the Depression and the miraculous postwar prosperity came from policies enacted during FDR's third term. Obama cannot run for a third term, the best he can hope for is to be succeeded by a Democrat. He is working hard to achieve that.
You cannot expect a replay of the last 4T because the parties are radically different. The party of FDR in today's world be a composite of Trump voters AND minorities with the SJW's split between the two parties. A lot of moderate Democrats and some mainstream liberals would Republicans. This is (and was) a weird combination. It wasn't stable; the Democratic coalition eventually fell apart.
How can you line up the last 4T with today when the parties then are fundamentally incompatible with their modern versions. Thus, there is no template you can compare the next 4 or 8 years to that will work any better than it has in the last 8. It is entirely possible that the regneracy is long past with the climax nearing and the 1T within five years now, all of which will be crystal-clear in hindsight, but completely invisible to us now.
Nothing will be resolved in your mind in 2024. If you cannot make a determination now, you won't be able to then either. History does not play out as people expect it to.
We DID get a panic in 2008, first one since the early 1930's. Obama DID occupy the position of FDR. As far as healing the economy goes, Obama has probably done better in his two terms as FDR did in his first two. Obama failed to restore prosperity, but did FDR. The solution to the Depression and the miraculous postwar prosperity came from policies enacted during FDR's third term. Obama cannot run for a third term, the best he can hope for is to be succeeded by a Democrat. He is working hard to achieve that.
You cannot expect a replay of the last 4T because the parties are radically different. The party of FDR in today's world be a composite of Trump voters AND minorities with the SJW's split between the two parties. A lot of moderate Democrats and some mainstream liberals would Republicans. This is (and was) a weird combination. It wasn't stable; the Democratic coalition eventually fell apart.
How can you line up the last 4T with today when the parties then are fundamentally incompatible with their modern versions. Thus, there is no template you can compare the next 4 or 8 years to that will work any better than it has in the last 8. It is entirely possible that the regneracy is long past with the climax nearing and the 1T within five years now, all of which will be crystal-clear in hindsight, but completely invisible to us now.