Will 2026 finally be the year when a critical mass of Americans wakes up and realizes that Republicans always screw up the economy?
Donald Trump inherited an economy from Joe Biden that was perhaps not firing on all cylinders but was in pretty good shape all the same.
For the third straight time, a Democratic president handed a Republican president an economy that was at the least pretty good, and at most (Bill Clinton) really humming along very nicely. And, for the third straight time, the Republican has made things worse. Which also means that Democratic presidents have to clean up messes left by their GOP predecessors.
Depend fo who.
“Will 2026 finally be the year when a critical mass of Americans wakes up and realizes that Republicans always screw up the economy?”
I live in a red state.
LOL. LMAO even.
They WILL vote against their interests as long as the R is next to the name.
Republicans will have a place in America as long as people are racist. Every other aspect just serves to let some white people feel superior.
You’re making the mistake of believing them when they use “good economic management” as the reason behind their vote
It’s a lie
They don’t really care about the economy.
“The Economy” is lofty, worthy, and who could argue against someone who is for a stronger economy?
They will vote republican because republicans don’t just allow their hate and ignorance, they tell them that they are righteous for it
Not one of them could tell you what GDP means, or how fiscal policy affects inflation, but they can tell you exactly who is on the long list of people they hate and fear
I still can’t decide if the Republican leadership is so hellbent on grift, that they don’t care about the overall economic effects, or they really are just that stupid.
“When will Romans learn the truth? Caesar is…”
“When will Russians learn the truth? The Aristocracy is…”
“When will Germans learn the truth? The nazi party is…”
Going by history, the answer is, if ever, at the end.
It would help if the media stopped assisting them with their campaigns every cycle.
Biden had the post COVID and global inflation crises to deal with, every nation suffered the same, some more than others, the US less than most. He didn’t do too bad.
Trump doesn’t give a rats ass about the economy, his entire purpose was to enrich himself and his friends.
Biden (and now Trump) also had that pesky little commitment to giving billions of dollars to a genocidal apartheid ethnostate with free healthcare.
They won’t.
I think even if this was on billboards and schools started to teach this basic fact, it would take decades for it to finally sink in.
I cannot tell you how many “non political” people tend to believe it, too. I could see dumbass cult members parroting nonsense talking points about how magical Republicans are on the economy, but the fact that people that barely pay attention believe it is just exhausting.
Far too many idiots think: “the government should be run like a business, and Republicans bend over the hardest for business, therefore we should put a Republican in as a President-as-CEO, preferably someone also from the world of business”.
It’s all so very fucking stupid, starting with the very premise…
In the presence of continued propaganda from the GQP and the duplicity of the Fourth Estate supporting and distributing that propaganda I don’t think it will ever sink in.
Oligarch owned mainstream news providers have become Republican disinformation tools - slightly veiled versions of Fox News held to no standard at all. Facts have little chance against widespread lies repeated constantly almost everywhere.
Hell, even before Faux came along, the mainstream media was and is embarrassingly skewed to the right.
But that was not enough for the Bircher types. They resented that something like Watergate was allowed to bring down their Nixon. They needed outlets that were ridiculously, cartoonishly even, right wing. And they had the balls to call them “fair and balanced”.
The funniest thing is when you see some Bircher bitching about how Faux is “woke” or something unhinged like that.
I mean, Network skewered the corporate capture of news quite well, and that was 50 years ago.
The liberal media helped fascism grow in the 1920s and 1930s in America. They also did the same the second time in the mid 2010s to now.
Explain how liberal media supports fascism
These guys can do it way better than I ever could, and way more in depth (it’s a 2 parter).
edit: I’ll add that this is the “Behind The Bastards” podcast so anyone else can find this in the future
The entire system, which is propped up by the media, supports fascism. Media is nothing more than the propaganda arm of oligarchy.
bingo
Republicans dont care about the economy, they care about their wallets. They will keep voting for any red tie that makes them pay one penny less in April and call anyone who disagrees foolish.
I can’t stand these people and im fuckin drowning in them
What will likely happen is that when we finally get a Democrat in next election, all the bad shit Trump caused will just be blamed on the Democrats who just got into office.
The worst part is that this time the effects are affecting everyone in the world. Fuck you trump. You fat cunt 🖕
It affects the whole world each time.
We’ve seen Republicans wreck the Clinton economy and the Obama economy, both of which were very good. The one-term Biden economy wasn’t sturdy enough yet to withstand their bullshit as well.
every 4-8 years. then they forget in 2.
The Government of Putin voters never will, because they’re either greedy or plain dumb. The comment below mine, from “jtrek” is spot on, especially his 4th remark.
