Summary

Donald Trump has shifted focus away from the economy, despite using inflation as a campaign issue.

With Biden presiding over strong job growth, low unemployment, and easing inflation, Trump faces difficulty critiquing the economy.

Democrats aim to capitalize by framing Trump as responsible for economic challenges and advocating for voter-friendly economic priorities.

Historically, disciplined messaging on pocketbook issues has delivered major midterm victories for both parties.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    With Biden presiding over strong job growth, low unemployment, and easing inflation

    These losers are never going to “win” when their metrics are complete garbage.

    “Full employment” just means everybody is being used. It just means we’re all wasting our lives serving capital. It’s not a worthwhile goal. We should be shooting for 4-day weeks and similar instead. We should be shooting for total liberation not total enslavement.

    Likewise with GDP, etc. Their metrics are all about how fully they can exploit people and how fast they can destroy the planet.

    That’s why nobody cares when these creeps tell that “the economy” is doing great. It just means we’re all getting screwed more greatly.

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      It’s fact that GDP is totally detached from quality of life.

      We need better metrics for success before we make ourselves extinct

      Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives