‘Bizarre strategic fail’: Ex-Trump aide bemused by GOP’s latest campaign tactic

The GOP’s new rallying cry, repeated by former President Donald Trump in his speeches and on social media, asks if Americans are better off now than they were four years ago when he was still the leader. This has caused former White House Director of Strategic Communications Alyssa Farah Griffin to jog the memories of those who may be selectively forgetful. “I'm perplexed from a strategy standpoint why Republicans are doubling down on the claim ‘we were better off 4 years ago,'” she wrote in a thread on X. “We were literally facing down a global pandemic, under lockdown, facing…