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Why Trump Thinks Democrats Will Sabotage the Economy
August 20, 2019 at 5:16 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 17 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2019/08/20/why-trump-thinks-democrats-will-sabotage-the-economy/
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Jonathan Chait: The professions of confidence by Trump and his supporters that no recession is at hand is belied by their own behavior especially Trumps frantic attempts to pressure the Federal Reserve into loosening its monetary policy, along with the presidents renewed interest in cutting payroll taxes as stimulus. Its also belied by a fair amount of data.
But more curious than the rights insistence that a recession wont occur is its certainty that Democrats working through their agents in the Fake News, naturally are engineering one. Why would the right imagine such sinister motives? Perhaps the answer is that this is precisely how Republicans behaved in the opposition.
After Obama took office, the entire Republican legislative calculus revolved around the premise that Republicans were engaged in zero-sum competition anything that helped Obama pass a stimulus bill hurt their party
Throughout Obamas presidency, Republicans not only demanded contractionary fiscal and monetary policy but staged a series of dangerous showdowns in order to force Obama to accept it.
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Celerity
(43,349 posts)pushes it off with crazy monetary policies and other dirty tricks, and then our new Dem POTUS walks into a shitstorm within a few months, it sets up the table for a one term Dem Presidency (especially if the collapse is even remotely close to 2007-2009 levels) and a really, really poor chance of retaking the Senate in 2022 (if we fail to do so in 2020.)
State the Obvious
(842 posts)...and he is already setting the groundwork to focus ALL economic and trade failures on the Democrats, in case Dems win in 2020. (Even the prediction of a 2020 recession has moved to 2021... So a new Democratic president can take the hit!)
We know all about "Republican Spin"!
Don't we?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I mean, that's just Econ 101 there. Trump's magical thinking is all that's standing between the world and financial chaos.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,855 posts)what he would do, given the chance.
Wounded Bear
(58,649 posts)State the Obvious
(842 posts)(The Republican base does not know what the word "projection" means.)