Will 2026 finally be the year when a critical mass of Americans wakes up and realizes that Republicans always screw up the economy?
Donald Trump inherited an economy from Joe Biden that was perhaps not firing on all cylinders but was in pretty good shape all the same.
For the third straight time, a Democratic president handed a Republican president an economy that was at the least pretty good, and at most (Bill Clinton) really humming along very nicely. And, for the third straight time, the Republican has made things worse. Which also means that Democratic presidents have to clean up messes left by their GOP predecessors.
Carter inherited the terrible Nixon economy (following Ford), Clinton inherited the GWH Bush “malaise,” Obama inherited the GW Bush Great Recession, and Biden inherited both a terrible Trump economy, but also an unmanaged deadly pandemic.
Every Democrat in modern times has inherited a terrible Republican economy, while ever Republican has inherited a relatively stable economy, and ruined it.
Republicans have also added far more to the national debt as well. It was estimated that Trump would be responsible for 55% of the National Debt, but that was before his war. It will undoubtedly be higher now.