Trump: Just you watch, soon we'll be hitting 5 percent growth

The politician's conventional wisdom would tell you never to say something like this, because you're making it harder for you to claim you've achieved your own goals. The actual leader looks at what's possible and tells people they should settle for nothing less, knowing full well he's putting pressure on himself to get there. During the Obama presidency we didn't hit 3.0 percent annualized growth in a single year, and the average was a paltry 1.9 percent. The left tried to justify this awful performance by claiming we had settled into an age of "secular stagnation," and that there was nothing anyone could do to prevent this from being the new normal.