President Donald Trump needs to build a time machine to send the United States back to the Reagan administration if he wants to make America great again, according to a poll released Wednesday.
A plurality of Americans who responded to the Economist/YouGov survey said the country is more politically unstable now than during the Great Depression or the Civil War, the poll found.
Out of 16 time periods in American history, more Americans — 57% — said the Reagan years provided excellent or good quality of life.
That period — from 1981 to 1990 — was followed by the Clinton era — from 1993 to 2001 — at 55%.
Just 33% of respondents said the quality of life is excellent or good in the present time, while 34% said the quality of life is poor or terrible.
Americans believe the current era is the most politically unstable of the 16 periods.
More than 3-in-10 respondents said the present time is the least politically stable, while only 17% said the Civil War period was the least stable.
Another 6% said the revolutionary period was the least politically stable while 5% answered the Great Recession, from 2007 to the 2010s.
A plurality of respondents — 17% — said the Reagan years marked the time when the country was most politically stable, followed by the Postwar Baby Boom (from 1946-1964, 15%) and the Clinton Years — 14%.