Consumers also expressed much less of an appetite for holiday gift spending compared with what they said earlier in the season. Consumers often trim their holiday spending plans as the season progresses, to be fair -- but this year’s midseason decline is the largest Gallup has recorded.

Well we thought that was bad but wait for it.

In my lifetime every time we’ve had a GOP president we have had an economic slump. Reagan-Bush, Bush II, Trump. And every time we have had a Democrat it’s been economic recovery: Clinton, Obama, Biden.

Every. Time.