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The Obama years of a stalled economy with limited opportunities for many, especially young people and college graduates entering the workforce, have been transformed into the strongest national economy in half a century, despite a relentless, brutal attack on President Trump, the architect of the economic rescue, from his political foes … on both sides of the aisle … and the news media, which has steadily deteriorated to a level below tabloid journalism. It has specifically been the GOP policies, championed by Trump that have turned the economy into a sea of opportunities for anyone with a solid work ethic that wants to realize the American dream. This economic turnaround benefits all those that choose to work, especially minorities that have realized the highest level of employment since such statistics have been recorded, as well as gay people and all special interest groups. Mayor Buttigieg sounds like he is in denial of current day reality and the GOP policies that have delivered this era of unrivaled prosperity for anyone willing to apply themselves. It makes perfect sense that Democrats and other opponents of President Trump criticize him nonstop on style, for the simple reason that they have no policy or platform positions to offer anything meaningful to improve the majority of voters lives. Key word “majority”.
Right on, Mark.
Obama inherited an economic mess, brought on by Republican policies and starting in 2009, the economy has been on a roll. All economists recognize we are 10 years into an economic expansion. Trump pushed through a deficit busting tax cut for the wealthy and corporate America, but the supposed “trickle down” impact of those tax cuts have not materialized for the middle class or the poorest in America. If you have student debt, a national problem delaying marriages, home buying and a host of other society impacts, you’ve received nothing from Trump and his team. If you want to make America dirty again, its land, water and air, just look at what the EPA has done in 2 years. Trump’s political foes have good reason to object to his policies and do. Trump as a person is unwholesome and would not be a welcome neighbor to anyone with an attractive wife or daughter at home. His apologists will be embarrassed someday and likely deny their fervent support of a man who took office with a minority of the votes.
Jerry,
Nice cut and paste job.
Good one, Jeffrey.
It’s amazing how Democrats trot out the same tired old talking points from the ’80’s all the time. I guess they have nothing else. Just as everyone benefited from the Reagan tax cuts back then, this time around, eighty percent of tax payers got a tax cut in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. It should’ve been 100%, but I’ll take it. The top 20% of earners pay 95% of income taxes anyway, so wouldn’t you expect that if their share of the burden is larger, any reduction of that burden would have a greater impact on them? Kind of a math thing, not an opinion. Buttigieg tries to blame the Republicans for banking deregulation, but the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act which is the legislation that deregulated banks was signed by President Clinton at the behest of former Wall Streeter Robert Rubin, his Treasury Secretary. It was passed by a Republican Congress, but I don’t recall any objection from that great Man of the People Bill Clinton. As for denying climate change, I don’t think denying hoaxes is a bad thing. I wish more Republicans would do so more forcefully, maybe we wouldn’t have wasted $35 million and a lot of time and energy on that other great Democrat hoax, “Russian Collusion.”
The Democrats, like Mayor Pete, are intellectually bankrupt. They can’t go to the voters and openly advocate for their Socialist vision for America, in the face of a strong economy, one that took shape only after the failed policies of the Obama years were repudiated by the Trump administration. So all they’ve got to run on is rage and envy. All they can do is put up candidates who fill one or more identity politics quotas, like Mayor Pete, the failed Mayor of South Bend (who is gay), or fake Mexicans like Beto, fake Indians like Warren, fake African Americans like Kamala. Yes, she is partially of African descent, but by way of Jamaica, but she grew up in Berkeley, California in the 1960’s and 1970’s, and both her parents were professors at the University of California. The idea that she personally experienced any form of segregation, as she claims, is laughable. If she ever sat on a school bus as a little girl, it’s because her school was too far to walk.
Despite unrelenting anti-Trump propaganda on the mainstream media, he still manages a better than 50% job approval rating. Couple that with the fact that people who wear MAGA hats get assaulted, or who put Trump Pence bumper stickers on their cars find them vandalized in the morning, and I expect to see a 49 state blowout next November, Democrat hysteria notwithstanding.
‘Hope you’re right, Keith. Well-stated.
Good analysis on the identity politics quotas.
Regarding Deborah Simon’s fawning over Buttigieg: Is there anything as dangerous as an ingrate with inherited wealth?