When Democrats say "new normal", that normal is always a weakened economy. Democrats do not want a thriving economy. They want you to accept poverty as the new normal because that is all they can offer you.
I taught my children, all about communism and it's ills. One a US Marine, and the other Asst. Manager to a fast food store, both live on their own, and they're only 19 & 20.
"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter"
Isaiah 5:20