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Please explain to people living in towns that had 30+% unemployment and later completely collapsed that the 80s were better and watch them laugh in your face if they don't punch you (see: any mill town in Pennsylvania--Allentown, Johnstown, etc.) ...

While I'm always one to dump on the MAGAs, they have a point in that for a LOT of people, life WAS better because labor jobs (mills, mines, auto factories, etc.) paid for a decent life. Those jobs which were good in the 1960s and 1970s then vaporized in the 1980s.