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Friday, August 10, 2018

The GOP Is All Pastel (and Little Boldness)

It’s a scandal that the Republican Party is struggling to win.

Brandon J. Weichert August 9, 2018

The real unemployment rate (the U6 figure) has reached a 17-year low in record time. This is almost exclusively in response to the massive amount of regulations that the Trump Administration slashed beginning from his very first day in office. The tax cuts also helped to goose the economy. For the first time in more than a decade, the economy has reached truly prosperous levels for many Americans.

Now, there remains much work ahead of the Trump Administration. Government spending is out-of-control; the failure to repeal Obamacare has raised the cost-of-living on many Americans; and the stratification between the wealthy and the poor remains at stratospheric levels (though the positive economic situation will help to mitigate this division). Also, the effects — whether positive or negative — from the ongoing (and escalating) trade war with China have yet to be fully felt by the American economy.   However, in the near-term, things are brighter for most Americans than they have been in decades.

So, how is it that the GOP is struggling to win the wave of special elections in 2018 (and there seems to be some evidence that the general midterms in November will be a tougher race than, frankly, it should be, given all of the positive economic developments)?

The problem is the GOP itself..........To Read More.....


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