...were sorta kinda ok if the price of eggs went up.

I'm not denying it was painful. But POTUS doesn't control that, any more than he can control gas prices**. Yes, I get that whoever is in the White House gets the blame, even though most of the macroeconomics are beyond his/her control. On this board, I'm assuming most of the posters are savvy enough to know that. And I was responding to one such poster.

For voters at large, I'm not really sure how to handle it. I would say that we need to educate them, but that will mostly be fruitless. It seems, no matter which party is in the WH, they will get the blame for gas prices, or egg prices, or any of a number of things they can't control. Biden was partially to blame for inflation in the first two years (with his BBB plan that arguably took things a little too far, causing inflation), but also was mostly responsible for it going away in the last two years (in part because of skyrocketing jobs numbers...lots of moving parts to an economy).

Clinton said something like "I feel your pain". Maybe that's enough? He didn't have control of egg prices or gas prices, either. But he did benefit from the sudden expansion of the online economy, and produced the last surplus we've ever had.

I do agree that you shouldn't just dismiss concerns if you're running for office. I suppose you could even lie about it, and say "I'll fix it on day-one". Worked for the Felon. I'm not good with lying, though. One of many reasons I will never seek elected office.

**Strategic oil reserve notwithstanding.