A year ago, on Nov. 6, Americans woke up to find Donald Trump had been elected our 47th president. Since then, we have to revisit the ultimate question first asked by a fellow Republican and great Illinoisan, Ronald Reagan.

It was at the final presidential debate between President Jimmy Carter and former California governor Reagan on Oct. 28, 1980, in Cleveland. Reagan had the final say in the debate.

“Are you better off than you were four years ago?” he challenged voters. The answer came a week later in a landslide victory for Reagan, and began what eventually would become eight years in the White House.

Since Trump’s election and inauguration, the question needs to be posed once again: Are we better off than a year ago?

Ponder that for a while, while we refresh what happened on Nov.

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