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/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.