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hap0206, Fact is Dems are better for the economy than Republicans are. You have been given that factual history many times, and it's message is loud and clear that whatever the extra burdens the present two wars your two Trump buddies Netanyahu and Putin are imposing on the world Democrats will do better with the economy that Trump's fascist-like Republicans would. And, the U.S., in spite of Trump's isolationist efforts is still part of the greater world.

Sheesh, hap0206, You could hardly go farther far-right that that rag ..


https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/american-thinker/

With a LOW credibility rating how low can you go.

Have a read - GOP, never the working class party -- I Was Wrong: The GOP Will Never Be the Party of the Working Class | Opinion

The basic premise of this conservative guy any objective person must agree all the evidence over years
supports. That is despite much misinformation around the GOP will never be the party of the working class.

The second wave of “cancel culture”

"DeSantis faces pushback in Florida as voters tire of war on woke
MAY, 2021 -- "Labeling everything as "woke" is becoming as common and disingenuous (as many don't even know what
it means) a tactic for conservatives as Trump's "fake news." Don't like it? It's fake news. Don't like it? It's woke.
Mar. 17, 2021, at 1:38 PM
Why Attacking ‘Cancel Culture’ And ‘Woke’ People Is Becoming The GOP’s New Political Strategy"""

Published Aug 14, 2023 at 7:00 PM EDT
Updated Aug 22, 2023 at 10:06 AM EDT

By Sohrab Ahmari
founder and editor of Compact, author of Tyranny, Inc.: How Private Power
Crushed American Liberty — and What to Do About It

For half a decade following the rise of Donald Trump, I took a leading part in the effort to bring about a populist GOP: a conservatism that would combat the stresses imposed by the market on working people, helping them attain lives of security and dignity. For a time, I believed Donald Trump could deliver such a conservative movement. But now I'm faced with the realization that he couldn't—no one could, because the Republican Party remains, incorrigibly, a vehicle for the wealthy.

It's an unsettling place to be in. While ferociously conservative on cultural issues, I'm increasingly drawn to the economic policies of the Left—figures like Sens. Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders, who, unlike the vast majority of leaders in American politics, and especially those on the right, are willing to tackle the corporate hegemony and Wall Street domination that make daily life all but unlivable for the asset-less many.


The author, Sohrab Ahmari

My turn toward realignment politics didn't come straightforwardly. Having launched my career at the heart of establishment conservatism, I was initially baffled by the Trump phenomenon. I was then an editorial writer for The Wall Street Journal in London, preaching free trade and low taxes. Back home, the more Trump bucked orthodoxy—
assailing free trade .. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election/trump-vows-to-reopen-or-toss-nafta-pact-with-canada-and-mexico-idUSKCN0ZE0Z0 ,
defending Social Security .. https://www.salon.com/2016/03/31/donald_trumps_social_security_heresy_taking_on_paul_ryan_and_the_privatization_push/ ,
hinting support for a public option in health care .. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2016/02/ted-cruz-attack-on-trump-over-letting-people-die-in-the-streets.html
—the louder the base cheered him.

I should have known better....

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Also, from a member of the only class your woebegone hero reveres, the billionaire class:

The Transformation at the Heart of Biden’s Middle-Out Economic Agenda

The economy is not about money; it’s about people.

by Nick Hanauer
February 9, 2023

[...]

[Insert: [...] ..rooster, wrong. Trump lags behind his predecessors on economic growth
[...]
The Early Economic Records of Presidents from Kennedy to Trump
President GDP Business Investment Investment in Equipment
Kennedy 7.0% 8.3% 14.2%
Johnson 6.3% 10.7% 11.9%
Nixon 0.0% -1.6% -0.3%
Carter 2.7% 8.2% 12.2%
Reagan -2.1% 3.0% -3.0%
Bush-1 2.6% 0.5% -0.2%
Clinton 3.5% 7.7% 13.5%
Bush-2 1.1% -4.7% -6.1%
Obama 2.2% 1.5% 14.7%
Trump 2.6% 5.9% 9.0%
,, with others ..
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.. with much more .. Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming | Nick Hanauer
"It’s Time to Stop Living the American Scam"
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Republicans have excelled at consistently advancing an overall narrative about how the economy grows and how jobs are created. And they have been rewarded by the public, who score the party as better stewards of the economy. The public believes Republicans are better at running the economy even though their trickle-down claims that tax cuts for the rich create growth, that raising wages kills jobs, and that any form of regulation on large corporations destroys productivity have been repeatedly disproven. In fact, the historical record shows that the Republican policy agenda did nothing but enrich their big donors and increase budget deficits.

By contrast, Democrats have promoted a wide range of popular policies but provided no clear and consistent counternarrative of how those policies grow the economy and create prosperity. Too often, Democrats have even echoed the Republican trickle-down narrative or merely talked about fairness, which sends the message that there is a trade-off between growth and fairness. No wonder most people think Democrats don’t understand the economy.

Human beings use economic narrative to understand how the world works. It shapes how they see economic cause and effect.

The middle-out story that President Biden is telling is not just a narrative; it’s also grounded in empirical economic evidence gathered over decades. Biden and his advisers understand that the economic policies of the past 40 years were animated by a fundamental misunderstanding of how economic growth and widespread prosperity is created. Massive corporate concentration, reductions in worker power and wages, and lower taxes for the rich do not create economic growth and a thriving middle class. Instead, we have seen the real result: entrenching wealth and power among the few and creating historic levels of wealth and income inequality.

Trickle-down economics has its cause and effect backwards. The essence of the middle-out approach to policy is recognizing that the economy isn’t money—it’s people. And the better that everyday American families do, the more the middle class thrives, the stronger the economy.

This new approach is based on, as President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers wrote in a 2021 issue brief .. https://www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-materials/2021/05/11/building-back-better-the-american-jobs-plan-and-the-american-families-plan/ , a growing body of “empirical evidence that a strong economy depends on a solid foundation of public investment, and that investments in workers, families, and communities can pay off for decades to come.”

Eric Beinhocker, executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University of Oxford, further explains: “It is the broad middle of the population that does the bulk of the working, innovating, and spending in the economy. Shared growth doesn’t come from giving tax cuts to rich people or deregulating the powerful, it comes from investing in, supporting, and building a large, inclusive middle class.”

Economic inclusion—the full economic participation of as many people in the economy as possible—drives a virtuous circle between increasing innovation and demand for new and better products and services, as well as creating better, higher-paying jobs. When the economy grows in that way, the lives of most people get better, not just those at the top. Economic justice and economic growth always go hand in hand.

THREE CORE IMPERATIVES ARE ESSENTIAL to building the economy from the bottom up and the middle out: (1) raising incomes and lowering costs to enable all Americans to participate robustly in the economy; (2) increasing both human and material capabilities to ensure that people have both the individual capability and the material infrastructure to robustly participate in the economy; and (3) managing markets to maximize competition and innovation, encouraging economic activity that is aimed at solving the key problems society faces while discouraging cheating, exploitation, and parasitism.

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hap0206, You'd be better off sitting with your wife, sipping a martini, looking at a view
and feeling special than you are cheering on you misguided policies and people here.