Is That All There Is?

If this is the best conservative columnists can muster in terms of convincing Americans that they are better off now - after 40 years of wage stagnation - than they were at the turn of the century, than maybe Trump will win in a romp.

I mean, really? You have to argue that the quality of life is better now than it was at the turn of the 20th Century? That's the best you've got?

Maybe the funniest line showing the stunning lack of awareness about how the current service industry schedules workers is this Samuelson beaut: 

Not only was work more dangerous; it was also more insecure. "Factory-workers hours could be shortened from one day to the next," writes Leon, "leaving workers with a severely reduced paycheck." 

Golly. That never happens in 2016.