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.
“It wasn’t the boat sinking that made all those people drown, it was the water rising.” - captain shortly before mutiny
Typically we judge people on how they handle the event and not the event themselves.
Trump isn’t blamed for covid, but how he handled it. Biden shouldn’t be blamed for inflation (it was bound to happen given covid spending), but how he addressed it.
Not to mention, the affordability crisis were facing is not the the result of any one president’s or congress’ actions, but a consistent systemic issue with both.
How he addressed it was by cutting enhanced unemployment insurance and dropping plans for stimulus checks. edit - while also pursuing an infrastructure bill that pumped a ton of money into businesses
No kidding, and yet here we are arguing underneath an article pretending the Democratic party doesn’t have this policy problem