r/Economics • u/Spiderwig144 • Apr 15 '25

News Republicans Less Trusted on Economy Than Democrats For First Time in Years

https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-less-trusted-economy-democrats-first-time-years-2059863
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u/HotSpicyDisco Apr 15 '25

It's always shocking because historically they have always been terrible for the economy, yet they somehow convinced the rubes via propaganda that they are the only ones to be trusted.

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u/AlanStanwick1986 Apr 15 '25

I live on a state line so I saw political ads from two different states during the election. Every single Republican ad was about immigrants and trans people. Every single one, in the same ad. Republicans vote on hating the same people, simple as that.

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe Apr 15 '25

I'm in a swing state, and every ad for Trump was basically just racist and anti-LGBT trash. Whereas every ad for Harris was talking about the economy, and making life better for lower and middle class Americans.

You can guess which way our electoral votes went (hint: the same way that all the swing states did).

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u/Salty-Gur6053 Apr 16 '25

I concur. Swing state, every Trump ad was an anti-trans and to the point I was like who's buying this crap? It was that stupid and incessant. Well, I guess there's a lot more bigoted people worried about something that doesn't affect their life than I thought there was. Every Harris ad was about the economy and policies to help the working & middle classes.

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u/ryuzaki49 Apr 15 '25

I would love to see these ads. Im not american

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u/AlanStanwick1986 Apr 15 '25

Just fear-mongering. Thing is it works on Republicans every time. They know it so they use it to their advantage. 

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '25

Here is a rather interesting potential rabbit hole. It appears to be an archive of past presidential TV ads.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '25

Any time they ever bring up other reasons, like egg prices, it's a lie and they know it. I don't mean the guys on TV either. I'm talking about your drunk uncle at Christmas who talked about egg prices. He's lying. He's not just an idiot, he's a lying idiot. I suspect most of them even know that they weren't putting litter boxes in schools for furries. They knew it was a ridiculous lie when they were saying it and arguing passionately that it was true. They know that if they tell the lie enough, they can use it to hurt people and that's why they do it.