One party was selling a retributive story of national decline, and the other, in response, declared that the country was already great.
By the bleary-eyed end of the pandemic emergency, it was hard to find almost anyone, anywhere in the country, offering a truly positive vision of the future.
Even the grandiose architects of the A.I. revolution appeared, to much of the public, like apocalyptic doomsayers.
Large majorities of Americans still believe that the country is on the wrong track, but more now believe that the country's best days are ahead of it than believe it is in decline.
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