Your last source contradicts your first (partisan) source, and also mentions:

> The national debt grew by more than $8.1 trillion during Donald Trump’s presidency, the largest four-year increase in the nation’s history.

I was addressing the claim that Democrats had added merely $1.2 trillion since 1913.

I apologise if that wasn’t clear enough.

You misunderstood. That number is per 4 year term, and is an average. I probably could have phrased it more carefully to make that clear.

Still, 1.4 vs 1.2 is a distinction without a difference.

One party fucked us over slightly less than the other party isn’t really an argument in favour of either.

Its not the same at all though, because the right uses the deficit to excuse their selfish bullshit, like letting children starve, then they go on to increase it by more than the other side whenever they have power.

We get wildly different results, even with the similar spending.

The government exists to benefit the people, not the other way around, and only one side gets that.