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Monday's WaPo-ABC poll found that “60% of all voters say the country’s economic system mainly benefits those in power,” including “8/10 Dems & > 6/10 Ind” & “nearly 1/3 of Republicans.” #TuesdayThoughts
newrepublic.com/article/153726…
newrepublic.com/article/153726…
2-"..Trump should recognize that he’s more vulnerable on the economy than the big-picture economic data suggests. In 2016, after all, the economy was pretty good—which, many argued at the time, benefited the incumbent party, the Democrats. Hillary Clinton based her campaign on
3-"continuing the economic recovery that had begun under President Obama. But Trump (and, for that matter, Bernie Sanders) made a different argument, that the recovery was only benefiting a small percentage of people, while millions were falling further behind. That latter take
4-"resonated.This cycle, Democrats would be wise to make a similar argument about the economy under Trump: that the corruption of this administration, combined with the regressive impact of the GOP’s $1.5 trillion tax cut bill, have doubled down on a system built for the
5-"interests of a small group of extremely wealthy people—and that’s causing everyone else to lose ground. Democrats missed their chance at fixing that system in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, but they can craft a message around it now—and further damage Trump’s
6-"reelection hopes. This argument, moreover, can also be attached to nearly every major domestic policy issue in the primary, from expanding access to health care to fairer taxation, from really rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure to aggressively prosecuting antitrust
