Optimistic right wingers are the ones that spiked consumer confidence? You mean it wasn't due to the great economic indicators?Everyone said that "dumb Trump" would put tariffs on our trading partners and ruin our economy. And what happened? Consumer confidence is at its highest since 2001
Lets point out that we were on the verge of a recesison in 2001.
It also happened to be the year another Republican won Presidency promissing tax-cuts fueling unrivaled period of economic growth....and ending his presidency on the middle of Great Recession.
Confidence shot up when Trump won and peaked slightly above that in 2018 when tax-cuts passed. So clearly the difference is not policy effects, the difference is a bunch of optimistic rightwingers.
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Mark
No it wasn't as anyone familiar with indicators would tell you.
There was no difference in indicators between November 2016 and Jan 2017 to justify 25 point jump (this is before Trump even got to the WH).
The big difference was Trump won and Republicans stopped shitting on economy day in and out.
Many economists predicted that if Trump won, the economy would crash. Why didn't that happen?
Mark