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Home Front: Politix
Why is the Media Still Trashing the Trump Recovery?
2020-11-19
[Townhall] Let's be honest: The Democrats and the media want the economy to crash before Joe Biden enters the White House in January. They have been rooting against the economy for four years now.
I thought maybe the author was going to explain why they hated Trump's recovery from The Corona.
The problem is the economy isn't crashing and burning -- just the opposite. The pandemic lockdowns flattened the economy earlier this year, and there's lots of heavy lifting to do to get all the jobs back. But they are coming back, and Trump will be bequeathing to Biden the swiftest recovery from a deep recession in modern history. The last quarter came in at a record 33 percent growth.
Which the media reported a different way, such that the YTD or something was anemic.
It took six months to get unemployment below seven percent under Trump. It took the Obama-Biden administration almost six years to do that.

There are now 6 million unfilled jobs in America. That's more than at any time during the entire eight years Barack Obama was president. The small-business confidence level is higher today than from 2009 to 2016, the supposedly prosperous years when Biden managed the anemic economic recovery.

But if you were to believe the media, there is no recovery under Trump. If you want to have fun, Google the phrase "economy is slowing."
Nah, you don't need that much fun.
The election is over. Why are the media disparaging the Trump recovery?
Inertia? Forgot how to do anything else? No plan for a Biden win?
One reason is that anti-Trump derangement syndrome is such a truth-altering virus in the newsroom that they can't give Trump credit for anything. Another explanation is that the left craves another $2 trillion to $3 trillion debt bomb stimulus bill, and every new report of the surging economy argues against that. Chemotherapy isn't necessary when you're cancer-free.
A new stimulus bill could have still more voting improvements!
But most of all, Democrats and the media know in their cold, black hearts Biden will perform much worse on the economy than Trump. So, they want to set that starting hurdle so low that no matter how dismally Biden performs, he will still be heralded as the guy who saved the economy, not the one who capsized it.
Even if the hurdle is high, they'll just lie their eyes out and claim Joe did it.
If you want to see an economy that is genuinely "slowing down," wait until you see what the "liberals" do to it.
Back to "2% annual growth is the new normal".
Posted by:Bobby

#3  The mean girls club? What else would they do?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-11-19 15:07  

#2  They're just trying to establish the baseline for their narrative about how the economic hell we'll find ourselves in is all Trump's fault. This is the reverse of their narrative about how all the good in the economy over the last 4 years was Obama's doing.

Liars gonna lie.
Posted by: AlanC   2020-11-19 09:17  

#1  Biden's promised national lockdown should set new highs for Amazon, China, Google, Facebook, Twitter and their oligarchs. New lows for the rest of the nation.
Posted by: Fester Omerenter6429   2020-11-19 02:01  

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