The “Trump Slump” is fully underway
If you’ve spent any amount of time at all on social media, you’ve probably heard some variation of the claim that Democrats are bad at messaging. It’s just another all-encompassing statement that’s guilty of making the same fallacies all sweeping statements make, but a problem unique to the Democratic Party is that they’re actually a large coalition made up of several diverse groups with similar interests that don’t always overlap, so getting them all on the same page is a much taller order than getting the wings of the GOP to agree on something. The other problem is that the people most equipped for delivering the message of the Democratic Party are those who see a more lucrative endgame in simply criticizing it.
This noise creates a considerable challenge for us when it comes to winning elections, but every so often, a good bit of messaging breaks through – particularly when it comes to Donald Trump, whose awfulness tends to bring people together in force against him. On Monday, the stock market plummeted in anticipation of his tariffs – the ones delayed from last month, and it’s hardly an isolated incident.
The first quarter of the year saw a 2.8% dropoff from last quarter, one of the sharpest drops in 50 years. The name for this is “the Trump Slump” – a sharp contrast from 2018’s “Trump Bump,” which itself was short lived before the manufacturing sector of the economy fell into recession in late 2019. Trump’s running the economy off a cliff – in ways that are only getting worse as things go on and trying to blame the Biden administration for his shortcomings is already falling flat.
James Sullivan is the assistant editor of Brain World Magazine and an advocate of science-based policy making