Rep. Elise Stefanik Mocked For Asking If Things Are Better Now Than 2020

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) was mocked on Wednesday for having either a very short memory... or a very selective one.

In remarks following Donald Trump s decisive showing on Super Tuesday where he all but clinched the 2024 Republican presidential nomination Stefanik, the House Republican Conference chair, attempted to update a rhetorical question used by Ronald Reagan during a 1980 presidential debate with then-President Jimmy Carter.

That question, of course, is: Are you better off today than you were four years ago?

It worked for Reagan, as the country was suffering from inflation, high gas prices and a lingering sense of malaise . But Stefaniks echo of the question didnt quite have the same potency.

The reason is probably self-evident to anyone old enough to be reading this: While many people are undoubtedly having a hard time today, 2024 simply isnt the disorienting, dystopian horror that was 2020 , when the world was turned upside down by COVID-19 .

Not surprisingly, many users of X, formerly Twitter, tried to jog Stefaniks memory about what we were all actually going through four years ago.