![]() The media is usually too busy to cover it because they’re busy covering whatever crisis the White House has concocted that week. (Trump isn’t doing that either.) He does fitfully boast about the economy, but it’s usually through the lens of complaining that the media won’t cover it. Instead, his hyping of carnage has continued almost unabated, this week popping up as a counterpoint to wrenching stories about infants taken from their mothers at the border.Ĭonventional wisdom holds that at a time when the economy is booming, a president should be popular (Trump is not) and that a president would focus on that booming economy. ![]() “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,” he said on January 20, 2017. ![]() Crisis was the theme of both his nomination-acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention and his bleak inauguration speech. He preached of a surge of immigrants, when border crossings were actually down he painted a dark picture of widespread crime, even though crime rates are historically low he warned of China stealing jobs and manipulating currency, when in fact both job loss to China and yuan devaluation had peaked years before. Yet Donald Trump adeptly manufactured a series of crises that helped convince slightly less than a majority of the country to vote for him, despite his manifold weaknesses as a candidate. This was no small feat, given that Barack Obama was reasonably popular and the economy was growing. The Trump candidacy was itself based on creating a sense of crisis. Of Course Trump Backed Down on Family Separations David A.
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