Posted on 01/18/2024 5:05:54 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Supporters of former President Donald Trump cite his economic record as a reason to vote for him, but that's a bit puzzling.
Why it matters: Trump's economic record is only good if you leave off what happened from March 2020 to the end of his administration.
Zoom in: When the pandemic hit, the jobless rate soared to a record 14.8% — a level not seen since the Great Depression.
The rate did come down a bit after that, but when Trump left office there were fewer jobs in the country than when he got there — the first time that's happened since Herbert Hoover was president.
There were long lines at food pantries. Gas prices fell a lot — to $1.77 a gallon in April 2020 — something both the former president and his supporters note. But that was because the country was on lockdown and demand for gas plummeted.
The big picture: Trump supporters may be just giving him a pass on the pandemic economy, as the New York Times columnist Paul Krugman writes.
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(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...
Books arraigned by rainbow colors. Is she telling us something?
Most people arrange their books by topic, or author, or size.
But not horse face.
Horse face arranged the bookshelf by color.
Rainbow ordered color.
Because rainbows matter 🌈 to horse face.
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Lol, you beat me to it.
How many Americans (including those here on FR) shrieked that Trump wasn’t doing enough when his initial response was to treat Covid akin to a slightly deadlier flu?
(And in terms of the governors who actually had the authority to mandate masks and set lockdown policy, the only one who didn’t was Kristi Noem of South Dakota.)
Paul Krugman “economist”. LOL!
We all know that it was states and cities that closed businesses, not Trump. For instance, in my rural county, unemployment did not change at all during the pandemic. Businesses, including local government offices, continued on as usual.
Damn straight, Ultra.
I knew this country was doomed when I saw how many Branch Covidians right here on this website had the audacity to scold me for refusing to shut down my business and hide under my bed in March-April of 2020.
Didn’t take long for the prog zeepers to jump in on this one.
uh, ‘cause he’s not responsible for it?
That girl is going places.
My eyes! MY EYES!
My State SHUT down. Home Depot, Lowes, Walmart, Costco, and the big grocery outlets were open. EVERYTHING else shut down.
This is rich, Trump gave us the best economy in a generation. Pure propaganda for clueless fools who actually trust Axios.
That sentence alone explains why we give Trump a pass for unemployment during the pandemic. He didn't cause the pandemic and his economic policies led to record employment growth before the pandemic hit.
I saw one analysis that said that unemployment numbers were exaggerated during the pandemic, and not that many people actually lost jobs. A lot of people started working from home, and it became almost impossible to buy a new office chair.
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Nice catch
Not so subtle propagandizing at the very least
Seeing Peck: That’s a man, baby! h/t Austin Powers
Trump can be faulted for failing to stop the Covid scare which ruined the economy in 2020.
However his competition are the people who pushed the Covid scare in 2020.
So uhm, of course we blame the people that pushed for our downfall over their competition who merely failed to stop the push.
This article writer basically admits their dishonesty / blatantly false narrative - or maybe the author is just that stupid to believe this headline and that it is "puzzling"? Uh, pandemic? That has nothing to do with his economic policies or economic record. Literally admits his record was good until the pandemic hit....then claims it is puzzling to claim Trump had a good economic record?
Yikes...this is so embarrassingly absurd it just makes the head spin.
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