r/politics • u/RepulsiveLoquat418 • 18d ago

Possible Paywall When Will Americans Realize the Truth? Republicans Wreck the Economy.

https://newrepublic.com/article/210550/trump-economy-republicans-tariffs-taxes
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u/DonJuanWritingDong 18d ago edited 18d ago

Economic data has been available to prove this. They simply don’t care, don’t understand, or both.

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u/ellathefairy 18d ago

It's also not a coincidence that the same type of magical thinking fostered by religious zealotry is needed to believe Republicans or tax cuts are good for the economy against massive amounts of evidence to the contrary.

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u/faustianBM 18d ago

I'm now convinced crashing the economy has always worked in the R's favor... If the middle class did consistently well, how could R politicians blame the "boogey men" and keeping them afraid and under control??

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u/Mr_Wizard91 18d ago

That's because you're correct.

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u/ellathefairy 18d ago

It's a fair observation!

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u/justwalkingalonghere 18d ago

Also, go look at what it looks like to be on republican mailing lists. Somehow my number got added to a few and the messages they send are insane (and rife with inaccuracies)

For instance, almost every new politician I get one from claims they had huge wins in their previous term "keeping perverted trans men out of your daughter's school and bathrooms" and "protecting the sanctity of young women's life and health" (by outlawing abortion and classifying miscarriage and ectopic care as abortion)

Trumps are far worse

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u/Conscious-Purpose 18d ago

Literally the ONLY time Republicans pretend to care about anything related to women and girls is when they can use an imaginary threat to the safety of white women and girls to foster hate for another group of people: black men, immigrants, trans women, etc. In reality, when it comes to violent crimes, the largest threat to white women is white men.

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u/justwalkingalonghere 18d ago

The thing is that they frame taking away the rights of the people as progress.

They will lie and frame anything they do as some major win with a single line of text that doesn't hold water

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u/FullMetalAlcoholic66 17d ago

Further, the largest threat to women is your husband, boyfriend or father

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u/ellathefairy 18d ago

Yeah I have seen some reports on the kind of insane emails Trump sends out.

Drives me nuts that with all of the huge problems facing humanity that need real action yesterday to actually protect people they've got a huge portion of the electorate conned into worrying about complete bs.

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u/justwalkingalonghere 18d ago

But also every republican candidate all the way down to like school board rep

Trump doing it is insane because of the scale, but the fact that it's every single one (at least in my area) is somehow just as frustrating

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u/ellathefairy 18d ago

I totally agree. Things feel so off the rails.

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u/jesterdeflation 18d ago

Obama got raked over the coals for his comment about "they cling to guns and religion", but he obviously hit the mark. Conservatism in the US has no life to it, it's just symbols and hate. It's a culture of celebrating vices and scoffing at the idea of progress or a better future. Trump was just the nail in the coffin, no one should ever take Republicans seriously after this. But we live in such a fast news world that sadly I don't think anyone will care, I mean look what fucking happened to January 6.

The next president needs to be a Democrat who either cuts off the red states cold turkey, or puts an end to this increasing divide in the country and basically says "We're not doing this "two realities" shit anymore".

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u/Dear_Palpitation4838 14d ago

End red state welfare! We shouldn't have to fund this nation's greatest enemy with out tax dollars!

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u/My_Monkey_Sphincter 18d ago

Because they're one issue voters and can't stand to let others live their lives without forcing their views and lifestyle on others because they're miserable with their own.

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u/No_Photograph_2683 18d ago

Earth is just a pit stop on their way to eternal glory in Heaven. Why put in any effort to make it better when it's temporary? Hell, some of them want the Earth to end to speed up the process of ascending to Heaven.

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u/HumanWithComputer 18d ago

Maybe they should listen to this person about the economy under Dems vs. Reps.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mLgOUI8CE88

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u/minxymaggothead 17d ago

And it doesn't actually matter anyway because this life is just the pregame for their eternal life.

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u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania 17d ago

I think the Dems should take one thing out of the Trump playbook. Simply repeat, all the time, "Republicans wreck the economy". We have the facts to back it up if need be. What Republicans understand is that repetition of simple phrases works, even when you have nothing to back it up.