Obama years hurt so good

A recent letter writer writer advises liberals to “suffer like we did for eight years.”

Although I suspect President Donald Trump’s time in office will be shorter than that, I will be happy to endure it if the pain Trump inflicts on the nation compares in any way to that President Barack Obama caused: a near trebling of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, 82 straight months of private-sector job growth, a decline in the unemployment rate from 10 percent to 4.7 percent, 20 million additional adults with health insurance with a slower rate in the increase in premiums than under his predecessor, a cut in the deficit of $800 billion (taking it from 9.8 percent of GDP to 3.2 percent), and a 28 percent increase in exports.

By contrast, Trump’s main achievement to date seems to have been to revitalize the career of actor Alec Baldwin.

This story was originally published March 10, 2017 at 5:27 PM with the headline "Obama years hurt so good."