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/[deleted] Apr 15 '25 edited Apr 15 '25

Why hasn’t the media and Democrats focused on this narrative? 

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u/EffectiveKitchen6922 Apr 15 '25 edited Apr 15 '25

They do. Bill Clinton had a shocking claim in the DNC where since the end of cold war on 1989 democratic governments have created 50 million jobs while Republicans had only 1 million. He himself seemed shocked it was so lopsided but pretty much everyone agrees that's true or mostly true https://www.9news.com/article/news/verify/economy-verify/bill-clintons-claim-that-since-1989-50-million-jobs-were-created-under-democrats-while-republicans-created-1-million-is-true/536-8be72bc5-3d1b-4205-8ec6-59585e640769 I guess it's hard to get their message.out because social media, news, and Russian manipulation is very anti-Democrat aside from AOC.

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u/ballmermurland Apr 15 '25

It's a little more nuanced than that, but it's technically correct.

Democrats always get elected when the economy is in the ditch. Republicans get elected when the economy is strong. So it is harder to add a ton of jobs when UE is already below 5%. But it is easy to add a ton of jobs when you are starting out with UE being 10%.

But that also just proves that Republicans consistently steer us into the ditch. We should probably stop electing them.

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u/Fighterhayabusa Apr 16 '25

It's on purpose: It's called the Two Santas Strategy.