Reject the lies: Trump only wishes he could have the Biden-Harris economy

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Reject the lies: Trump only wishes he could have the Biden-Harris economy
Trump's outrageous claims must not stand — Democrats have been far better at managing the economy since FDR

By Kirk Swearingen
Contributing Writer
Published September 8, 2024 5:30AM (EDT)


(Salon) Last month, a poll commissioned by the Financial Times found that people trusted Kamala Harris more on the economy than her felony-convicted opponent. To be fair, that poll was something of an outlier — at least until last week, when a USA Today/Suffolk poll also shows Harris’ numbers much improved on the question of the economy.

Still, the idea that Donald Trump would somehow be better for the economy persists among millions of Americans who remember what prices were like before the COVID pandemic took down the world economy. Trump also benefits from a general bill of goods Americans were sold long ago: the entirely false idea that Republicans do a better job with the economy.

Democrats should conquer their fears on this topic and calmly continue to point out how entirely wrong that is, even in the face of how people “feel” about the economy — and even if, as Joe Tauke recently wrote in Salon, that seems politically unwise. They should cede no ground on this crucial question — and, generally speaking, they are not. Refusing to stand up for reality is how we wound up with Trumpism in the first place. There is no good reason to surrender to “alternative facts.”

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It fits the pattern in place ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt lifted the country out of the Great Depression: A Republican president fumbles the economy after being handed a typically strong one by a Democrat, increases the national debt in service to the wealthy, oversees the creation of far fewer jobs and often drives the nation into recession. ............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/09/08/reject-the-lies-only-wishes-he-could-have-the-biden-harris-economy/