Trump's slogan,
Make America Great Again, kind of begs the question: when do Trump supporters feel America was still great? When did it stop being great? The Clinton campaign's answer is pretty straightforward: never. America is still great! But Bernie supporters, for example, having applauded their candidate's speeches about rising inequality, the increasing difficulty for regular people to get by, escalating student debt, the corruption of money in politics, etc, might feel different about that.
All in all I am kind of fascinated by this question. What about A2K? When do you think America was at its greatest?
The question of course also raises the issue of what that even means. Like, would you pick a year or decade when you think Americans had the best or easiest lives? Or when there was the most hope and confidence about things getting better? Or when Americans distinguished themselves in unity and valour? It's all up to you, really.
I should add that I'm hardly the first to come up with this question. Back in April the New York Times did a
whole article on it, for example, based on polling data by Morning Consult. Teaser: when respondents were forced to pick a single year, the same year "won" among Democrats and Republicans, but there were also some notable differences.