Trump's rewriting of reality on jobs numbers is chilling, but it could backfire
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Weirdly, he lost running away from his accomplishments. Operation Warp Speed was a huge credit to him. Fauci managed the whole thing reasonably well, given the immense uncertainties. It could have been better, to be sure, but it could have been a heck of a lot worse.
But he's back, so clearly that didn't stick. In his first term, he was largely protected from his worst ideas. Now he's not. And we're here wondering when his bad policies will be obvious to everybody.
Aggravatingly, it could be never. Markets aren't the only thing that can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. There's every reason to think that a massive crisis is on the way, and it's hard to imagine how it could wait four years to materialize... but then again, maybe it can.
For quite some time the darndest thing is when people started acting like they need to be reminded about the way that Trump has never considered it a backfire after he bankrupts the organization he sits on top of :\
Repeatedly.
You shouldn't have had to be there :(
He acts like he did great because he lost less money than everybody else.
>I won't live to see how history explains this.
Me neither, but I've seen this movie before. It's a tragic tear-jerker, not a happy ending :(
Remember when he was most well-known as a cheating golfer and financial pariah?
We don't have to live that long to see him become recognized most for his dishonesty again, we've already seen it in the 20th century and it's more embarrassing than ever now. Like Nixon, his disgraceful legacy is already in the cards but won't become ubiquitous right away when he is gone. Remember Nixon was re-elected too before he descended into darker deeds, needed to be kicked to the curb, and Congress had the balls to follow through if necessary. Decades later it doesn't make much difference if an embarrassing president is impeached or not, or even convicted, what's remembered and virtually celebrated is the spreading relief the longer he's gone.
As we have seen, an untrustworthy leader is worse than a wise old do-nothing. Even halfway wise wouldn't be too bad about now.
Nixon might have been crooked through-and-through but at least he had not been the kind of criminal that Trump turned out to have been for quite some time. No doubt he did live up to millions of peoples' long-held expectations in that regard.
It will take time before Trump's supporters, like Nixon's, have dissipated and died off too, but one day about the only thing patriotic Americans will think about him is "Dishonest Don", how did a criminal like that get in there? "Tricky Dick" has about described Nixon completely for decades now, never thought such a self-aggrandizing bloviator like Trump would aspire to be more of a footnote than him. I guess people could say "bless his heart, he doesn't know any better", the way he's doing it to himself.
Eventually the students who will be graduating over the next few years with not enough jobs and even fewer career prospects will be telling their grandchildren how difficult it was to survive the Trump Recession. And how people should have paid attention to the staggered millions of citizens from their grandparents' generation who watched the dream of home ownership and a better life for their children slip away simply because of the fumbling and deceptiveness of one financial moron who rose too far back then.