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When Will Americans Realize the Truth? Republicans Wreck the Economy. (newrepublic.com)
submitted 1 month ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

The people who need to realize this truth never will because they have no interest in the truth.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm on the "old" side of getting older, and not once in my life have I seen a Republican Administration, Congress, or Judiciary act in the interest of the American people.

[–] iltoroargento@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

The time is past due to excise the cancer.

[–] Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

bUT aBRaHaM liNcOln WaS A rEpuBlICan

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I said I was old but I'm not that old..

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

yup and when I look before that you don't see very good things back to eisenhaur. Ironically nixon has some good stuff but it was forced on him. like the epa.

[–] noodles@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think for most Americans Biden's economy was not great, though at least it was headed in the right direction. And in fairness to him he was handed a bungled COVID economy, so it was a lot to recover from.

[–] iltoroargento@startrek.website 18 points 1 month ago

By no means am I a Biden stan, but the inflation reduction act was a massive step in the right direction coming off of the previous presidency. One which was immediately reversed after 2024.

[–] homik@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've always suspected democrats looked bad because they were mostly trying to put out the dumpster fire of an economy that republicans left behind. That of course never worked out to well, so (stupid) people were disappointed and voted for a bigger dumpster fire.

[–] Corvidae@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Republicans stories may be a fairy tales, but they result in real dollars for their primary benefactors, the super wealthy. That's what the gerrymandering mess is all about: Making sure the ultra rich continue their systematic exploitations.

[–] Guttural@jlai.lu 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

True, because democrats totally aren't about supporting the super rich class themselves 😅

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Never.

[–] chilldrivenspade@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

unfortunately the wishful thinking has been fully ingrained into their fairy tale brains all of their lives every sunday as they circle jerk and thank supply side jesus for their abundance and winning

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago

and then blame it on the next administration. this was bush jrs downfall. He won after a full two term republican was running things.