With permission, a small set of questions for Van Mosher (Monitor letters, Aug. 14) and other Trump acolytes:

1. Does the current president rightfully deserve credit for “Trump’s booming economy” which is, as the graphs produced by the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank among others show clearly to be a pretty much straight-line continuation of trends started in 2010 under President Obama?

2. If the “inverted yield curve” (and other indicators) correctly predicts our future and the economy backslides into recession, will the man who presides over the event be held responsible?

3. Will devoted Trumpists devise a conspiracy theory allowing them to make it Obama’s recession?

4. Or will they simply dismiss reality as “fake news”?

WILLIAM POLITT

Weare