Absolutely accurate. Also means it's kind of silly to kick out (with no plan for a better replacement, and with specific plans for something much much worse) the guy who actually vice gripped them together by a little bit, though, or assert that he's hurting everyone on purpose and that they're actually still going apart and that's his fault and if you try to tell me any different then (hostility).
Usually, economic policies on the scale of the whole country take quite a while to kick in and really produce significant improvement even when you can get them through congress (which, a bunch of his more aggressive than this stuff, he couldn't).