For context, Yglesias has written detailed threads and articles on his blog about how devastating Trump's proposed economic platform would be to the economy, inflation, and the deficit. This is the response from an NYT economics reporter.
I don't think any serious about economics would declare that the economy "only improved" during Trump's term, even ignoring how the economy did in fact crash after Covid. You'd want to have to dig in to at the very least the tariffs and the trade war.
And let’s be real. His performance pre-covid was ineffective. Trillions of $ in tax cuts pumped in to the economy for below trend line job and wage growth. Barely above trend line GDP. Ballooned the deficit by over $200B a year for all that “expansion”.
This drives me nuts. Like, we have decades of evidence that every Republican is both absolutely incompetent and criminally malfeasant when it comes to the economy.
It doesn't count if Democrats help Republicans save themselves from their own stupidity, you see. If Pelosi can shepherd through CARES, you can't blame Trump for telling people to inject bleach & take deworming meds
US politics is the hard men make good times meme but for the economy. GOP inherits a good economy and proceeds to fuck it. Dems take power and patch things together but fixing things is hard and people don’t like it so GOP wins the election and inherits a good economy.
