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.

  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Our economy has been vigorously fucked by bOtH pArTiEs for over 50 years. (even Clinton, see NAFTA)

    The Ds aren’t “cleaning up messes” of their opponents, they’re doing damage control for their tag-team mates.

    If you sit at the table with Nazis…