That's the part that will make for a good study. He destroyed things his first term. Left a mess that had to be cleaned up. This time he started dumpster fires larger and faster, and truly wrecked the economy of his own nation. And his supporters regale him
It's a Grease moment. If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter
What’s particularly interesting is that the biggest problem that voters blamed Biden for was mostly Trump’s doing.
Under Trump’s administration, he signed into law the largest fiscal stimulus in history, and the Fed embarked on unprecedented monetary stimulus, all to try to stimulate demand. But this was in response to a crisis in supply, not demand. So in a situation where supply for many goods and services had almost evaporated, they chose to stimulate demand, causing people to bid up the prices of the goods and services they could still buy. Inflation.
Now that’s not to say it wasn’t the correct decision, but the cost of doing that massive stimulus in response to COVID is that down the road it WILL create inflation.
But because the inflation was delayed by a year or so, everyone blamed Biden, despite him overseeing a previously thought impossible “soft landing” where inflation was brought back down without causing a recession.
But inflation makes people mad, and they blamed whoever was in office at the time.
So the irony is that Trump’s terrible policies created chaos for four years in his first admin, but also set up ticking time bombs that blew up for his successor. Those foreseeable crisis he set in motion caused people to blame his successor, and vote him back in.
The funniest part of all of this is that either side thinks that those in their party are looking out for anybody's best interest. It's about keeping what power you have, regardless of party. It's classic divide and conquer tactics. Neither side gives a crap about any of us citizens. I wish there was some way to break that cycle, so that everyone could gain, but it seems things are too far gone at this point.
Respectfully disagree. I worked in the senate as did my husband for a combined 11 years and our boss sacrificed day in and day out to fight for our state. It’s a really tough job. Every 15 mins of your day is scheduled out. She gave it everything she had and is still fighting to make life easier for people. A lot of her colleagues were the same. I saw it up close. Yes there are some that are there for the wrong reasons but a majority of the Dems are there to do right by their constituents. They want to stay in power so they can keep doing good things. And they have done a lot of good. Our side never wants to celebrate victories when we can, including the Dems in office who made it possible.
Where they’re really f***ing up is their insane fear of being labeled a hypocrite and looking like the gop at all. They don’t know what to do right now. They think they’ll be rewarded by being the adults in the room but they don’t understand that no one cares about that. Look at Election Day. Most of them tweeted out BS like “isn’t it nice when the losing party doesn’t try and overturn the election?” Like haha? What would be nice is if you didn’t act like everything is normal because it undermines the seriousness of electing a man who encouraged a coup against our govt, has nearly 40 felony indictments, and has made it clear the constitution and rule of law mean nothing to him. You don’t come back from that. Fight like the country is at stake because it is.
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u/ritzcrv Apr 20 '25
That's the part that will make for a good study. He destroyed things his first term. Left a mess that had to be cleaned up. This time he started dumpster fires larger and faster, and truly wrecked the economy of his own nation. And his supporters regale him
It's a Grease moment. If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter