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Retail sales have now exceeded $500 billion for the 8th consecutive month, while people embarrassed themselves talking about a recession.

The consumer is strong. They got spooked by big media, not by data or reality.
Also, I have to acknowledge @TJAnderson1 was right about the retail number last December, which big media had a big fit over. October & November were huge, Dec. came in just below $500B. He noted the early Thanksgiving and shopping season.

He was right.
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@TJAnderson1 Retail sales exceeded $500B for 8th straight month. If not for a dip to $499B in December 2018, it would be 16 straight months.

They had hit that mark for 7 straight months prior.

We were told under Obama retail was dead due to structural econ changes.
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It's fun being multiple cycles ahead of the curve.

Not so fun sifting through all of the "smart" pundits' tweets who were not, but now pretend to have been.
It's not just industry in Minnesota. It's populism.

The success of the state’s political parties depended upon it in the platform and the presidential voting preference supports this going back to 1860.
Whether some in the Republican Party are willing to admit or are even aware of it, American populism took root in the GOP and Presidents Reagan and Bush (particularly the first campaign) both had populist undertones in their campaign’s economic messages.
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1. GOP is strategically stupid.

The environment is a rising issue.

Instead of seizing on an opportunity to be the responsible/responsive party via a sane proposal that doesn't wreck the economy, they're working on restricting the Second Amendment, and depressing their base.
2. I don't know how many times I can say the same thing, albeit differently. Winning elections is a rather simple equation, just with a lot of different variables.

The goal is to maximize the size of a coalition by appealing to the most blocs w/o losing the largest natural base.
3. Considering the GOP's largest natl. base, which proposal seems more likely to result in a net gain?

A. Restricting a protected right dear to one of the largest segments of your base?

OR...

B. More effective market solution to an issue oppo owns, consistent w/ core ideology?
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Richard Baris
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Bernard Whitman says inner city guns come from red states.

So why aren’t they killing each other at that rate? B/C it’s not the guns.

But there’s no fake gun show loophole supplying the American ghetto. I love when white liberals who’ve never seen a ghetto or gun say so.
1. Take an Uber from the Upper East Side of Manhattan to Laguardia.

Fly to Florida to buy a firearm at a gun show to bring back to NYC to sell in the ghetto you never visit.

See how that works out.

There's no such thing as a gun show loophole.
2. You can't purchase a firearm at a gun show w/o a BG check. You can't buy one on the spot w/o a concealed carry, which requires (shocker!)... a BG check.

Ghetto guns, many of which miraculously walk out of evidence lock ups, are not legal guns purchased at gun shows in Fla.
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