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.

  • brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 hours ago

    Republicucks always said they were fiscally conservative. It’s always been what they touted as a defining characteristic when you took idealogy tests.

    Turns out, that was all lip service. At least for the last few decades.

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      6 hours ago

      Oh conservatives have always loved to spend money, just on things like weapons for “defense” and not like, people.