Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
The economy was booming under Trump, up to when Covid hit. We had the lowest unemployment rates for minorities and women, of all time. Gas was under $2/gallon where I live. I got a nice raise. With the economy strong and this being Trump's winning card, the Democrats needed to find a way to mess it up, before the up coming elections in the fall. This is how political parties play. This is not new and both sides do it.
The way this was done by the Swamp and Democrat party was to shut down the economy, in Left leaning states, using the COVID bogeyman as the excuse. In 20/20 hindsight, this path was never needed because of COVID, since the final death and sickness numbers were not much different in open or closed states. That choice was not due to good science. So, what was it all about? It was either being stupid or the goal was to mess up the economy, by removing half the states from working. That would do it.
The goal was to create economic bottlenecks, that still have an impact on the out millions who are out of the workforce, and the supply chain. I tend to believe that the Democrats did not expect to win, but wanted to mess things up of Trump, with the outside hope for a Hail Mary pass. They ended up winning, and inheriting their own mess.
I remember Trump, even with the Democrats messing up their states, for no science reason, was still able to have one of the fastest recoveries from the Left wing induced recession, of all times. But as the Twitter files show, censorship would play a role in the Democrat and swamp disinformation campaign, winning. Even COVID was lied about, since shutting down the economy was never needed but was justify with Swamp disinformation and censorship. What kind of boneheads lead lefty science?
The question I have is how many people on the Left believed in Trump and Russian Collusion scam? I am using this as a litmus test to determine your critical thinking skills. One had two years to solve the puzzle. If you fell for it all two years, you might still fall for anything being told by your same leaders? You may not have the capacity to tell the difference. I got it right in about two weeks. If it took you two years, you lack the right stuff to be objective. We can go back and research the results using site archives. I would suggest one uses the credibility criteria ,,before just assuming the latest mob circle is right or else.
Trump's economy was riding on the coattails of the recovery under Obama. Except for Trump's boom was largely artificial. Look at the deficits under the administrations by year. Before Covid, not after. Obama inherited a recession. It was not all Bush's fault by any means, but he had a good hand in it. But after the recovery started his deficits dropped every year.
Now look at Trump's deficits. He had no excuse, but his deficits grew every year. If the boom of Trump's was real he could have kept dropping them. But instead he set us up for the fall that we are in now. Of course Covid made it worse, and that was not Trump's fault. He was also behind the lockdowns. You can't blame the Democrats for that. It was one of the few good things that he did do. And no, your overlysimplistic rationalization did not show that the lockdowns were not necessary.
It is also incredibly ignorant for you to call the Democrats "the Swamp" when Trump was the ultimate Swamp.