Why Can’t Trump Convince Americans He Kept His Promise to Fix the Economy?

[mystery-ak]

Why Can’t Trump Convince Americans He Kept His Promise to Fix the Economy?
Andrew Malcolm      May 2, 2019

In the last 120 years, 18 elected presidents have sought reelection. Fourteen of them won, which you’d think should augur well for Donald Trump in 2020.

Of the four who failed, three had serious challengers either during their own party primaries or in the fall from a debilitating third-party challenger. Of the four, three also ran into turbulent economic times – Herbert Hoover faced  the Great Depression in 1928, Jimmy Carter had serious inflation in 1980 and George H.W. Bush had a sagging economy in 1992. “It’s the economy, stupid.”

So, Donald Trump should be in good reelection shape next year, right?

Well, maybe. It’s a strange political paradox of contemporary times that a poor economy can kill a presidential campaign, but a really good one doesn’t seem to help much, thanks to thankless voters.

You’d think it would. After the weak growth of that endless Obama reign of error, along comes a New York billionaire businessman who leads a Republican Congress to pass historic tax cuts aimed at the middle class. Almost immediately, a Trump predicted, economic growth took off.

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[Fishrrman]

Asked question:
"Why Can’t Trump Convince Americans He Kept His Promise to Fix the Economy?"

Because... it's not ABOUT "the economy" any more.
That's so... "twentieth century".

These days, it's the ideology that counts, brother Malcolm.
Better get used to it, 'cuz that's where the payoff is now.

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

It’s a strange political paradox of contemporary times that a poor economy can kill a presidential campaign, but a really good one doesn’t seem to help much

No, it isn't a paradox.

In a poor economy people lose, or fear losing, their jobs.  In a really good economy, they make a little more money.  Which one is going to motivate voters more?

It's like if you see clear instant replay evidence the refs made the wrong call and the wrong team wins.  It's not a paradox that you're going to be a lot more excited if it's your team that got screwed, it's human nature.

[Jazzhead]

Asked question:
"Why Can’t Trump Convince Americans He Kept His Promise to Fix the Economy?"

Because... it's not ABOUT "the economy" any more.
That's so... "twentieth century".

These days, it's the ideology that counts, brother Malcolm.
Better get used to it, 'cuz that's where the payoff is now.

No it is not ideology.   Conservatives can still win on ideology,  especially when policies informed by that ideology create economic boom times.

The problem is solely Donald Trump because he is uniquely polarizing.   

[corbe]

   Sure, the Economy seems to be humming and I think a lot of that is due to President Trump, his deregulation push early on and the tax cuts.  I also think there are things he has done that have hurt the economy (in the short term) Tariffs come quickly to my mind. Food, Gasoline and Healthcare are eating up any advantage he had for the average man/women/family.
   As others have mentioned up thread it has become such a hate Trump environment now and regardless of where we are economically that seems to become the deciding factor. 

[ABX]

For eight years, the Republicans, people like Rush and Hannity, and even Trump for four of those, rammed it into the American Right conscious certain statements about the Obama Economy such as:

Adjusted U3 Unemployment numbers are fake news, only look at the U6.
The economy needs to grow at least 4% per year to actually grow to overcome inflation.
There needs to be at least 500.000 new jobs created each month for true growth.
Unnaturally low interest rates is the Federal Reserve creating a bubble in the stock market to create a fake sense of a good economy for Obama.
The stock market also appears to be raising because of the devalued US dollar.
The debt is the biggest danger to the economy long term.

All of those were factual truths and accurate ways to analyze the economic condition.


....but now, we are told to ignore that and just cheer the way the Democts cheered for Obama even though in reality, things haven't changed much based on those standards.

[truth_seeker]

I remember well when Carter and GHW Bush* lost after just one term.

In both cases the economy sucked.

* then too that election demonstrated the utter stupidity of the Ross Perot/ 3rd party vanity crap.