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'Jobs versus mobs'

  

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Via:  xxjefferson51  •  6 years ago  •  10 comments

'Jobs versus mobs'
Liberals are creating an ideal juxtaposition for President Trump: Jobs versus mobs. The president would be strong with the “Peace and Prosperity” mantle he can legitimately claim, but is even more so against the left’s confrontation and stagnation. In their blind rage against him, liberals cannot see that they are widening the gulf they must cross to get to him in 2020.

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ANALYSIS/OPINION:

Liberals are creating an ideal juxtaposition for President Trump : Jobs versus mobs. The president would be strong with the “Peace and Prosperity” mantle he can legitimately claim, but is even more so against the left’s confrontation and stagnation. In their blind rage against him, liberals cannot see that they are widening the gulf they must cross to get to him in 2020.

The president’s economic variables are almost too many to mention and too good to be believed. When he took office, unemployment was 4.8 percent. Less than two years later, it was 3.7 percent last month.

In its most recent quarter, America’s economy grew 3.5 percent. In its previous one it grew 4.2 percent. Both came after what was already solid growth.

In eight years, Barack Obama had just four quarters that equaled or exceeded 4.2 percent. Of those, three came directly after negative growth quarters, rebound inflating their performance. The lone one that did not, 2009’s Q4, was just one quarter removed from the financial crisis’ three consecutive negative quarters.

While Mr. Trump has earned the economy, liberals have gifted him their anarchy. If the president has taken people off the street looking for work, the left have put people on the street looking for trouble. Mr. Obama , America’s most liberal president, made the left likeable; now they have made themselves threatening.

Unquestionably, Mr. Trump also has earned himself a portion of “peace.” The defanging of ISIS, if not the destruction, and rapprochement with North Korea for the first time — the press would have lauded both had Mr. Obama achieved them.

However, the left have given Mr. Trump an even bigger share of peace by embracing civil disturbance.

Americans unfortunate enough to be around civil disturbance are immediately alienated by it. Those luckier, experiencing it only on television, sympathize with those threatened and inconvenienced by it, not those perpetrating it.

Important as peace abroad is, peace at home is where America lives. By threatening domestic peace, liberals have cast Mr. Trump as seemingly standing between America and unrest.

This acute comparison is decidedly positive for the president. He has provided America with what it wants — and lacked for years — jobs. Liberals have provided America with what it does not want — and has not experienced, to this degree, for years, and always abhorred — mobs.

“Peace and prosperity” are every administration’s goal, because they are every Americans’ expectation. Not only have liberals given Mr. Trump a clear path to the claim, they have upped the ante with a peak and valley comparison.

Mr. Trump ’s economy is well above Mr. Obama ‘s. Only the left would argue this point; for the rest of America, it is an open and shut case. Liberals’ association with civil disturbance, has left them well below Mr. Obama ’s standing with the nation.

The distance between Mr. Trump and the left is therefore wider than it would otherwise be. The president would be benefitting from either comparison; thanks to the left, he benefits from both.

The effect of this “peace and prosperity peak and valley” may be muted this November. Mr. Trump has been in office less than two years. The economy has not been this strong — and the disturbances have not been going on — that long. Also, congressional Republicans are not the president himself.

In two years, all that could change. Sustained economic growth over an entire first term would thoroughly punctuate the point between the Trump and Obama presidencies’ prosperity performance. Nor is there any reason to believe that the left’s penchant for disturbance will dissipate.

Instead, it could well intensify worse as liberal frustration continues to mount over two more years and the left see themselves falling further behind. In such a case, it is possible liberals reach the conclusion they did not go far enough and raise the stakes.

And of course in two years, Mr. Trump will be on the ballot — and not by proxy. This will personify the comparison for America’s benefit, and likely for the left’s detriment. Peace and prosperity make for a powerful presidential resume; they are even stronger when juxtaposed to social anarchy and economic ennui.

• J.T. Young served in the Office of Management and Budget and the Treasury Department.


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XXJefferson51
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1  seeder  XXJefferson51    6 years ago

“While Mr. Trump has earned the economy, liberals have gifted him their anarchy. If the president has taken people off the street looking for work, the left have put people on the street looking for trouble. Mr. Obama, America’s most liberal president, made the left likeable; now they have made themselves threatening.

Unquestionably, Mr. Trump also has earned himself a portion of “peace.” The defanging of ISIS, if not the destruction, and rapprochement with North Korea for the first time — the press would have lauded both had Mr. Obama achieved them.

However, the left have given Mr. Trump an even bigger share of peace by embracing civil disturbance.

Americans unfortunate enough to be around civil disturbance are immediately alienated by it. Those luckier, experiencing it only on television, sympathize with those threatened and inconvenienced by it, not those perpetrating it.

Important as peace abroad is, peace at home is where America lives. By threatening domestic peace, liberals have cast Mr. Trump as seemingly standing between America and unrest.

This acute comparison is decidedly positive for the president. He has provided America with what it wants — and lacked for years — jobs. Liberals have provided America with what it does not want — and has not experienced, to this degree, for years, and always abhorred — mobs.

“Peace and prosperity” are every administration’s goal, because they are every Americans’ expectation. Not only have liberals given Mr. Trump a clear path to the claim, they have upped the ante with a peak and valley comparison.

Mr. Trump’s economy is well above Mr. Obama‘s. Only the left would argue this point; for the rest of America, it is an open and shut case. Liberals’ association with civil disturbance, has left them well below Mr. Obama’s standing with the nation.”

 
 
 
Krishna
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2  Krishna    6 years ago

Everybody Hates the Trump Tax Plan

Looking at the reactions to Republican tax plans, I found myself remembering what people used to say about former Senator Phil Gramm, whose presidential ambitions never went anywhere but who did help cause the 2008 financial crisis: “Even his friends don’t like him.”

So it is with G.O.P. tax “reform,” especially the Senate version, which would raise taxes on most individuals, especially in the middle and working classes, and add around 13 million Americans to the ranks of the uninsured, all to pay for big cuts in corporate taxes.

 
 
 
Krishna
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2.1  Krishna  replied to  Krishna @2    6 years ago
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lady in black
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2.1.1  lady in black  replied to  Krishna @2.1    6 years ago

Doncha know it's "fake news"

 
 
 
Krishna
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2.1.2  Krishna  replied to  lady in black @2.1.1    6 years ago
Doncha know it's "fake news"

For some time the main talking points of Trump and his core followers were how great the economy was-- because of his tax plan. And how much everyone loved it!

That rhetoric worked for a while...until people began to see the actual results-- which were mainly negative (unless, of curse, you were uber-rich-- they got a windfall!).

But as this became more and more obvious, Trump mentioned the now unpopular tax cuts less and less. In fact, he needed another issue to distract from the growing unpopularity of his Tax plan.

So he finally came up with something else, hoping to distract his base. And finally came up with "The Caravan"-- poor people almost 1000 miles away from our border, walking towards our border. WTF???

Now its his main theme-- in fact he's absolutely obsessed with it!

 
 
 
Sunshine
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2.1.3  Sunshine  replied to  Krishna @2.1.2    6 years ago
until people began to see the actual results-- which were mainly negative

Exactly what are those?

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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2.1.4  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  lady in black @2.1.1    6 years ago

It’s so fake that it was written by a former official in the OMB and US Treasury Department.  He couldn’t possibly know more about this than our progressives here do.  

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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2.1.5  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Sunshine @2.1.3    6 years ago

I too want to see what it is that our progressive opponents think that is mainly negative about our current economy. 

 
 
 
XXJefferson51
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2.1.6  seeder  XXJefferson51  replied to  Krishna @2.1.2    6 years ago

That must be why they are going to pass yet another tax cut during the lame duck session, because all those new jobs, bonuses, and pay increases we all got are just so unpopular that we all just want to give Nancy her crumbs back.  

 
 
 
Texan1211
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2.2  Texan1211  replied to  Krishna @2    6 years ago

I don't hate the Trump tax plan.

Of course, I have always enjoyed getting more money on my check and paying less in taxes.

Seems rather silly to me to want to pay more and earn less, but hey, that's just me.

 
 

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