Will 2026 finally be the year when a critical mass of Americans wakes up and realizes that Republicans always screw up the economy?
Donald Trump inherited an economy from Joe Biden that was perhaps not firing on all cylinders but was in pretty good shape all the same.
For the third straight time, a Democratic president handed a Republican president an economy that was at the least pretty good, and at most (Bill Clinton) really humming along very nicely. And, for the third straight time, the Republican has made things worse. Which also means that Democratic presidents have to clean up messes left by their GOP predecessors.
We’ve seen Republicans wreck the Clinton economy and the Obama economy, both of which were very good. The one-term Biden economy wasn’t sturdy enough yet to withstand their bullshit as well.
Plus, it was so devastated by Trump and Covid, that the best Biden could do was save it from absolute and utter disaster.
Which he actually did manage to do
Yeah it was never great, but sometimes great isn’t on the table. It was better than most countries were doing and it wasn’t crashing. In fact the biggest thing you can say about it is every year a crash was expected and avoided
IIRC it was said that the economy at the end of Biden’s term was amazing.
Trump has been uniquely economically irresponsible. Stuff like the tariffs changing every week is just insanely stupid.