Our economy is strong in a macro sense and definitely has fared better post-covid compared to peer countries, but there's a clear disconnect between macro conditions and the lived experience of the electorate. To wit:Our economy is really strong, the best among the advanced countries. How come the voters, when interviewed, say our economy is bad? The Dem campaign didn't do a very good job, it seems.
This has been the tale of the tape around the world last year or two, incumbent parties getting rocked everywhere, either in actual elections or in polling for upcoming elections. This has been true across national and ideological lines: centrists like Trudeau and Macron's parties, right wingers like the UK Tories or Japan's LDP, lefties like the socialists in Portugal, Spain, and Germany, none of them doing so hot electorally. The US is in better shape than the rest, relatively, but it's apparently not enough to stave off the same result.