What crash up? What are you talking about? The deficit? Both sides just use that as a political talking point. They know it's not that big a deal.
I can't imagine what other reason there would be to think that the country was in any kind of crash up. Consider, as of the end of 2016, corporate profits were at record highs, the country was adding 200,000 jobs per month, unemployment was below 6%, U.S. gross national product growth was the best of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. The number of healthcare uninsured in the country had dropped to below 10% for the first time in its history. America was respected by our allies, friends, and neighbors, as steady and trustworthy, and feared by our adversaries. Osama Bin Laden was assassinated, Al Qaeda weakened, Putin felt restrained, and we were on schedule to overthrowing the presence of ISIS in Syria without much direct exposure to the danger of being on the ground.
The stock market was near record highs, gasoline prices were falling, there was no inflation, interest rates were the lowest in 30 years, U.S. oil imports were declining, U.S. oil production was rapidly increasing, the deficit was also rapidly declining after the one-time stimulus spending to dig us out of the greatest recession in our history, and the wealthy were still making astonishing amounts of money.
So people were upset about this to vote for Trump? It makes no sense. No sense at all. Americans are just a bunch of ingrates and deserve what they have coming for the next few years.
