@MarshaBlackburn 1x/ Why do folks want you to think Republicans do better on the economy. The 2 worst years in the last 25 were the final years of #GOP Presidents: 2008 and 2020. Consider: Until 2020, quarterly GDP had never experienced a drop greater than 10% /1x
@MarshaBlackburn 2x/ since the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) began keeping track in 1947. It happened in 2020. /2x
@MarshaBlackburn 3x/ In April 2020, the U.S. economy lost 20.5 million jobs and the unemployment rate was 14.7%.
Black and Asian Men See Higher Employment Levels since 2020 - then, in the last year of the Bush Presidency, 2008 /3x
@MarshaBlackburn 4x/ In the third quarter of 2008 when GDP fell by 2.1% The economy lost more than 700,000 jobs in the last two months of the year. /4x
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@bryanbehar The Republican party was the loyal opposition for over 40 years after the Depression. Things started happening after Brown v Bd of Ed, then Civil Rights Act. GOP realized it's policies didn't align with majorities. It shifted from pure party of business to party of / 1
@bryanbehar 3 / of the GOP was business). Republicans gave lip service to these issues without much action. BUT the GOP culture coalition began shifting hard with Obama toward open racism and the intolerance of the evangelicals came out in the open. Few recall that the Southern Baptist / 3
@bryanbehar 2 / business and 'culture'. Candidates began to rail on the degradation of society and the sin of abortion. Soon, Catholics, a strong Dem group begin to splinter over the abortion issue. After Reagan, GOP went all in on social issues (never mind that the real business../ 2