Post pandemic inflation was world-wide, and the USA under President Joe Biden fared better than other industrial nations. The Economist magazine (not a liberal publication) in 2024 called the American economy "the envy of the world."
Republican strategy has long ben to repeat a lie over and over and over again, until it becomes commonly accepted. When Democrats try to debunk the lie, we are playing defense -- which is where they want us. It's the same thing with accusations, like blowing smoke with all the Benghazi hearings. The public concludes where there's smoke, there must be fire.
I thought one of the biggest mistakes of the 2024 Biden then Harris campaign was not touting vigorously enough all the achievements of the Biden administration -- especially the economy, which Trump over and over and over again asserted was a complete disaster.
Of course, tens of millions of voters who still struggle from paycheck to paycheck don't react well to being told everything is hunky dory with the economy.
Democratic politicians make a lot of promises they fail to keep -- primarily because Republicans obstruct legislation that would actually help Americans struggling to make ends meet.
Logically, does it make sense for low income folks, kept poor primarily by Republican policies, to vote Republican?
And yet they do -- and not just because of bigotry and culture wars. Republicans are more successful than Democrats at hammering home narratives that become widely accepted, despite the Republican narratives being false.
The M$M, ostensibly in their effort to be "fair and balanced," promotes a false "both sides" framework which essentially gives equal weight to truth and lies. Trump's mendacity and grift have become normalized, while Democrats have to play by a different set of rules.
And the rightwing noise machine is getting louder as billionaires who curry favor with Trump are acquiring more and more of the conglomerated media landscape.
About the only thing we Democrats have in our favor are the extremities of Mad King Donald's unconstitutional, corrupt, cruel, regime -- such as the brutal ICE invasion of our cities and the unmistakable signs that his feckless tariffs and incompetent handling of our economy is hurting even his own voters in the pocketbook. Added to that are his insane impulses in world affairs which are alienating our allies & trade partners, and the continuing saga of the Epstein files which is only getting worse.
Who knows WHAT will happen next, between now and the November midterms?
Our Democratic leaders have a real opportunity here, so they (and WE) better not blow it. The fate of our Constitutional democracy hangs in the balance.
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