There's a real Morning in America vibe among economic observers right now 1/ nytimes.com/2021/03/13/ups…
Surveys of forecasters are very upbeat after the passage of the American Rescue Plan 2/ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
This comes after predictions of disaster from the Trumpists. (Yes, I made a bad call when Trump won in 2016; I retracted it and apologized three days later). So what will they do? We already know the answer: they'll do what they did in the 1990s 3/
There were universal declarations on the right that Bill Clinton would be an economic disaster 4/ archive.thinkprogress.org/flashback-in-1…
When he presided over a boom instead, the same people insisted that all the credit belonged to ... Reagan, who cut taxes many years earlier 5/ archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.co…
You can already see this in microcosm, with Trumpists, whose plan for vaccinations was to dump the problem on the states, now trying to claim credit for Biden's impressive rollout 6/ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-cov…
So you can save time in your newsreading. If you want to know GOP reactions to whatever happens over the next 4 years: if it's bad, it's Biden's fault, if it's good, Trump gets the credit 7/
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