unnecessary misery for years, likely, i think, paving the way for trump s rise. this time democrats did the opposite. they invested a lot of money in the recovery and just had really positive effects but for some reason that s not enough of a victory lap, especially since one of the key factors that determines who wins the midterms, possibly american democracy, is the economy. now, today, december jobs numbers came out, below expectations, also wort noting for the past four months these reports have been wildly inaccurate. they had to do revisions and readjust the numbers higher three of the past four months. another thing, two days ago the payroll processing adp reported private job growth in december more than doubled estimates. so it s pretty clear the data is very noisy right now but the job market is very strong. i ll leave you with one final graph to make my point about the progress that has been made. whatever the jobs report is for december, 2021 as a year, saw the fastest job