A well-known political realignment (fueled by African-Americans) in the 1930s America swept the Democrats into power and passed the New Deal legislation.
Now, nearly 100 years later, it seems minorities are moving back towards Republicans. Why? Is it because Republicans seem to spend more money on social programs, support social safety nets, and expand government faster?
Trump's COVID relief - $2.3 trillion
Biden's COVID relief - $1.9 trillion.
(these might seem like similar numbers, but $400 billion is not a small amount of money)
So is the massive increase in Republican spending the reason why they're so popular among liberals now?
Don't take my word for it...
Trump had the third-biggest primary deficit growth, 5.2% of GDP, behind only George W. Bush (11.7% ) and Abraham Lincoln (9.4% ). Bush, of course, not only passed a big tax cut, as Trump has, but also launched two wars, which greatly inflated the defense budget. Lincoln had to pay for the Civil War. By contrast, Trump’s wars have been almost entirely of the political variety.
https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump
@wildgrass
But the zombies would be SCREAMING if the Biden bill HAD gone to 2 trill, TAX AND SPEND, TAX AND SPEND would be their mantra.
Biden is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
@wildgrass said===Trump's COVID relief - $2.3 trillion
A well-known political realignment (fueled by African-Americans) in the 1930s America swept the Democrats into power and passed the New Deal legislation.
Now, nearly 100 years later, it seems minorities are moving back towards Republicans. Why? Is it because Republicans seem to spend more money on social programs, support social safety nets, and expand government faster? ...[text shortened]... t entirely of the political variety.[/quote]
https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump
Biden's COVID relief - $1.9 trillion.===
That's because Trump was in office when COVID hit.
Reagan spent very little fighting the Vietnam War.
By the time Biden took office, covid relief was unnecessary. Most people were ready to go back to living normal lives (at least those not terrified by CNN scaremongering chyrons).
@sh76 saidReagan spent very little compared to who? Jimmy Carter?
===Trump's COVID relief - $2.3 trillion
Biden's COVID relief - $1.9 trillion.===
That's because Trump was in office when COVID hit.
Reagan spent very little fighting the Vietnam War.
By the time Biden took office, covid relief was unnecessary. Most people were ready to go back to living normal lives (at least those not terrified by CNN scaremongering chyrons).