Everything about Michael Grunwald's essay for Politico headlined "Everything Is Awesome!" makes me picture it as the sort of thing people will be linking to ironically after the Great Stock Market Decimation of 2016. I mean, paragraphs like this are packed with what a creative writing teacher would dismiss as being too full of portentous dramatic foreshadowing:

Mitt Romney promised to bring unemployment down to 6 percent in his first term; it’s already down to 5.8 percent, half the struggling eurozone’s rate. Newt Gingrich promised $2.50 gas; it’s down to $2.38. Crime, abortion, teen pregnancy and oil imports are also way down, while renewable power is way up and the American auto industry is booming again. You don’t have to give credit to President Barack Obama for “America’s resurgence,” as he has started calling it, but there’s overwhelming evidence the resurgence is real. The Chicken Littles who predicted a double-dip recession, runaway interest rates, Zimbabwe-style inflation, a Greece-style debt crisis, skyrocketing energy prices, health insurance “death spirals” and other horrors have been reliably wrong.

But it really does highlight the amazing failure of Democrats to get a message across to the American people. Grunwald points out that the deficit is shrinking, but a vast majority of Americans think it's still growing. There are massive problems with the recovery—income inequality, I have said a million times before and will say a million times again, is the biggest problem America is facing right now—but a lot of things in America are going all right, and I think if a Republican was president right now, they'd be hailing themselves as the next Ronald Reagan. Is it a matter of confidence? Is it due to Fox News? Why the hell can't Democrats trumpet their successes?