Every challenger argues that the incumbent, or the party in power, has screwed things up and made things worse, and every incumbent or member of the party in power insists that things are, at minimum, improving, in some cases using outlandish hyperbole, such as “Joe Biden has given us the best economy ever,” as Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research claimed.)
Donald Trump has no calibration, and thus everything he did was the best ever, and everything his rivals did was the worst ever. This past Saturday, at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., he said:
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