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Racism, willful ignorance, tribalism or willfully uninformed?

Why do Republicans believe the economic recovery began in 2017 instead of 2010?

Is that how Republicans operate...they demonize their opponents and take credit for their accomplishments by stealing their merits? Through deception and lies they create crisis and then resolve it to their credit? Because they know after a while, the ignorant will follow them like a bunch of lemmings to their destruction?

Are trump supporters unable to go online or understand basic graphs?

Also, why do they believe it was trump who alone brought down the unemployment rate down to 3.6? When he took office it was 4.9 which means it only went down 1.3 points. In 2.5 yrs.

Are trump supporters unwilling to accept it was a black President who saved their economy? They refuse to believe that President Obama took us from disaster to a decent recovery. They forget how far things fell under Bush, and how far Obama brought us.

Racism, or simply fear? Fear of being overtaken in the census by non-whites? Or is that racism?

Do you think Obama’s economy will collapse under trump faster than Clinton’s economy did under W’s?

Has the GOP morphed into a classic cult around trump? From where I'm sitting, it meets all the accepted definitions of cult-like behavior. There’s no other explanation for their blindness and eagerness to overlook his corruption.

It's very simple. Trump made no financial decisions until well into his term. But he says the economy was HORRIBLE until 2017, then within only a few months, he alone was able to turn the economy around. And they believe it. Is this why trump "loves the poorly educated"?

Do you think Republicans will believe whatever suits their narrative if it means not giving Obama the credit that he deserves? How could they forget the wrecked economy Bush left for Obama?

So may questions, so little time...
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curiosi · 61-69, F
Record number of people unemployed and on assistance is NOT recovery. As was the case in 2010
JP1119 · 36-40, M
@curiosi Yeah because by 2010 Obama had less than a whole year to do stuff to fix The Great Recession he inherited from Bush. You can’t really be that stupid, you’re being intellectually dishonest. The real measure of Obama’s economic policies is not where the economy was less than a year into his administration, it’s where it was when he handed the keys over to Trump in January 2017, and it was in excellent shape by then.
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@JP1119 Excellent shape, eh?
JP1119 · 36-40, M
Where did you get those numbers? I Googled real GDP growth Obama, and I got a line graph where the line doesn’t go any higher since Trump took office than it does at Obama’s highest point, and a bar graph that goes by years instead of quarters, and it shows 2018 at 2.9%, which equals Obama’s highest number but is still well below the 4-6% Trump promised on the campaign trail. The line graph was Bureau of Economics/Haver Analytics.@sunsporter1649
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@JP1119 https://www.thebalance.com/us-gdp-by-year-3305543