Red-State Governors Lead COVID Recovery After Blue-State Tyrants Tanked The Economy
January 28, 2021 By Tristan Justice
States helmed by Republican governors are leading the nation’s recovery from the lockdown-driven recession that is strongest in blue states led by Democrats, who imposed the strictest pandemic restrictions that suffocated small businesses and eroded jobs.
The two charts below from the conservative Committee to Unleash Prosperity illustrate state unemployment rates, color-coded by party control. The correlation is clear: States dominated by Republicans led with the lowest unemployment rates, while states governed by Democrats suffered the most.
In the second graph, it seems that “lean Republican†states where Republicans face stronger checks from the electorate had better outcomes than all the other electoral combinations. While some Republican governors have been noted for their extraordinary leadership in allowing their citizens to keep working and going to school in the face of a disease that is most dangerous to the very elderly, others have dictated crushing pandemic policies little different from their blue-state counterparts.
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