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The US is better off than it was in 1976. So why does it feel worse?

Roughly 60 percent of Americans tell pollsters the nation is on the wrong track. A majority say its best years are behind it. | Getty Images America in the summer of 1976 was not in a good place. The president who presided over the country’s Bicentennial, President Gerald Ford, only had the job because the previous president and vice president had resigned in disgrace, making him the sole US president who was never actually elected. The Vietnam War had ended in defeat and disgrace when Saigon fell the year before, after the deaths of nearly 60,000 American servicemembers. Inflation...