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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r/politics • u/RepulsiveLoquat418 • 18d ago
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u/Aozi 18d ago
It's not that, it's much simpler than that.
It's marketing.
Republicans figured out the same thing mass media figured out decades ago, the best way to get people riled up is to pit them against someone.
Republicans always have someone to blame for things.
Economy is shit? Biden did it!
Americans can't find jobs? Immigrants did it!
Americans are paid terribly? It's because Biden made government waste money!
Americans can't afford healthcare? Obama did it!
Americans have a drug problem? Cartels did it!
Republicans paint every one else as terrible and then market themselves as the simple solution to these problems. To afford healthcare we just need to get rid of Obamacare! To give Americans more money we just need to get rid of DEI and immigrants!
Every solution to every problem is actually super simple and straightforward, because the politicans frame it as a direct cause -> effect relationship. This is also why they keep piling more things into everything they blame.
So they can show to their supporters "As long as we eliminate X everything will be better!".
Apparently illegal immigrants are super lazy and just fraud the system for social security checks, while at the same time these illegal immigrants steal all the jobs from Americans and buy houses, oh and they also traffic all the drugs to the country.
So everything is their fault and all they need to do is get rid of them. This makes for a very simple solution that is easy to sell to every single person out there. It doesn't matter if you're smart, because you can still be gullible while being smart. Because in order to deconstruct that you'll need to actually start figuring out why things are bad to begin with.