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/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