The 1992 election has some lessons for 2024. Just not the ones you think.
We keep imagining Biden in the Bush role, which makes Trump... Bill Clinton?
Ross Perot dominated the 1992 mock election in my seventh grade class. But the adults that year chose Bill Clinton, and the phrase “it’s the economy, stupid,” became the conventional story of that election. The idea behind it carried over to how we understand presidential elections in general – that a good economy will carry the incumbent party to victo…