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| Topic | Was Trump really "good for the economy" before the pandemic? |
| ultimate reaver 11/03/20 9:42:12 AM #18: | Trump was excellent for large service industry corporations, but in practical terms that didn't mean a lot for you or me unless you were looking for a low-waged job in one of those industries. More than anything he was riding the post-depression wave of the end of the Obama administration. I know that's a universal copout answer for gains under every republican president basically ever and a shield for every dem president's losses ever but it's pretty well substantiated this time around. he campaigned on being good for us markets in a more widescale way though and that didn't actually pan out. farmers were a big target audience (and always are for republicans) in 2016 and his work with that sector has essentially been crippling it with his ineffectual trade disputes and subsidizing them with bailout programs. the result has been middling https://time.com/5885962/trump-farmers-election-climate/ he also campaigned on domestic manufacturing and that has been a confusing mess of failed projects and mild successes that add up to less than his predecessor. i know you said before the pandemic, but the pandemic has by and large washed the gains he made away https://www.statesman.com/news/20201001/fact-check-did-trump-overstate-manufacturing-job-gains-during-debate --- I pray god will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with this beautiful, stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in truth ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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