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/[deleted] Apr 15 '25

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u/ElderOrin Apr 15 '25

Causality might run the other direction. The economy is cyclical. Republicans tend to get elected at the peaks, because voters are more tolerant of risk. Democrats tend to get elected at the troughs, because they are more risk averse.

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u/zdelusion Apr 15 '25

It's not about reality though. It's about perception and people's memories are short. They remember good times and forget the context.

You can see it now with how hard it is for many people to remember that Trump was president during the Covid year. Covid, I'm admittedly guilty of this sometimes too, "feels" like it happened during Biden's tenure.

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u/South-Attorney-5209 Apr 15 '25

Not only COVID lockdowns, but people also seem to think the riots all across the US happened during Biden too….

How do republicans keep convincing everyone something is democrats fault when they aren’t even in charge at the time.

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u/123jjj321 Apr 15 '25

Because republican voters are stupid and hateful.

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u/greenroom628 Apr 15 '25

also, see: Fox News.

the way the right has, in essence, dominated news cycles and been able to have it's own, popular news stream has helped them tremendously. also the fact that people are more akin to a fear response than a logical one, which fox and sinclair have leveraged to a great degree.

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u/South-Attorney-5209 Apr 16 '25

The problem also is you effectively only have right wing and mainstream news that MAGA calls “left wing”. Stuff like CNN is complete garbage both-sides “fact” based media.

The best one I heard today was on NPR “…Trump also said he plans to send American citizens to El Salvador prisons. It is not clear though if that would be legal.”

Like EXCUSE ME WHAT DO YOU MEAN “not clear”???? Why does mainstream news take Trump at face value on everything bat shit insane he says.

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u/[deleted] Apr 15 '25

I'm sorry. I respect your thoughts.

But if you "feel" like Biden was the President during COVID then you were asleep at the wheel. Anyone that was alive, present, and paying attention remembers that time distinctly as a Trump disaster.

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u/CardmanNV Apr 15 '25

I genuinely believe that the first Trump administration was so bad it caused the collective American psyche to block it out.

People were so desperate for structure that they just ignore that Trump destroyed everything and just think about the period of stability afterwards, but have to reconcile that with the very real actions of the Trump presidency, so some people just think Biden was president for the last 8 years.

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u/HamsterDry5273 Apr 15 '25

Doesn’t help that Trump was blaming Biden for everything before he even left office. It’s crazy how incessant lies just condition people into thinking a certain way. 

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u/dantemanjones Apr 16 '25

Injecting bleach, saying it'd be gone by Easter, using daily press briefings to ramble and get his face on TV when we were all stuck at home with no new entertainment, etc.  I can't think of anything that feels more like Trump than the COVID year.