• Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee
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    27 days ago

    Trump inherited a booming economy from Obama and it was starting to decline in 2019 even before COVID hit. Often the president’s policies have an indirect effect at best, but economists generally agree that Trump’s policies were accelerating the decline in 2019. Obviously, the pandemic muddled everything in 2020, but the short answer is “no:” Trump took a good economy and was slowly killing it.

    80 years of economic data has shown that Republican economic policies simply don’t work:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_presidential_party