“Call it a re­ces­sion or stagfla­tion or a slow­down or a tran­si­tory blip or even Ethel or Fred—how­ever you name it, the U.S. econ­omy de­scribed in Thurs­day’s GDP re­port for the sec­ond quar­ter is strug­gling. That’s dis­tress­ing for the Amer­i­can fam­i­lies and busi­nesses liv­ing through it, and a po­lit­i­cal li­a­bil­ity for the De­moc­rats pre­sid­ing over it. No won­der they want to pre­tend it’s not hap­pen­ing.” WSJ