After effects of 911 20 years later.

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Let history provides us the facts we all experience to be the basis of such conclusions:
1. Border/Immigration then vs now
2. Inflation then vs now
3. Gasoline prices and availability then and now
4. Afghanistan then and now. (Noted fairly that one president left before the fully consequnences of the decision could be felt). What happened there for all we know could have been the same under either leader as the Afghan Army took early retirement.

The problem with these yardsticks, especially #2 and #3, is that fluctuations are caused by complicated factors, presidential actions often being the least significant of them.