Pick any metric you like and compare today with January 20, 2009.  I think, despite what the right-wing talk show hosts trumpet, you will find we're better off as a nation and as individuals.  The market.....the recovery of the auto industry.....the unemployment rate...... income level......decrease in % in poverty....crime rates.. The right-wingers scream "FAILED" but the facts don't support such claims.

However, you're right, the racists have come "out from the shadows" and we have far more racial issues today.  Yes, the right-wingers blame president Obama for that too.  "Just who does he think he is!!...being a BlackMan and being elected president?""  

I look forward too. and I look forward to a better America....far better than that dark, fearful place Donald Trump and his followers envision.