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.
Every damn time the Democrats take over they decrease the deficit. Then when Republicans take over, they increase the deficit. Then, come the generals again, the Republicans blame the Democrats for the deficit - every 👏 damn 👏 time 👏 - and their voters still swallow it. This is because of several reasons:
The progressives need to dump the moral high ground. They need to say aloud what everyone knows: the Republicans have been ruining the economy for decades. They need to encourage voter turnout and to call the Republicans anti democratic because they want degenerate lowlifes who watch chud streamers to go against the teachings of Christ and turn the US to Russia #2.
The high road doesn’t work and actively empowers the Republicans.
EDIT: fixed bad framing in regards to the deficit.
The deficit goes up exponentially faster under Republicans
Sorry, wrong framing. I did mean that the deficit increases under republicans and down under democrats.
I understood your point, but I was more trying to call attention to the rate they spend. Democratic leadership doesn’t run a surplus since the 90’s but they spend at a significantly lower rate than Republicans, who scream about any money that is not spent benefiting their specific interests