Poor old Joe. Everyone wants to kick him when he’s down, which is most of the time. He’s a born natural scapegoat in Democratic politics.
So far, high-profile Democrats like Joe Biden have been talking very little about the economy. Other top contenders like Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Sen. Bernie Sanders only discuss the economy in as far as it needs to change to suit a variety of socialist expansions of government purview.
These programs, their massive costs and requisite tax hikes, aren’t particularly popular across the heartland and in the rust belt, where Democrats desperately need to make a better showing than they did in 2016.
Looking at your LinkedIn profile makes one wonder if this, buried in the middle of your article, isn’t the main point you tried to make.
Progressive candidates are not backing away from talking about the economy, in fact making it the center point of their campaign as the very small gain realized by the working class in this “good” economy is validation that the neoliberal third-way wing of the party has betrayed its base over decades. The $6000 “AVERAGE” gain from Trump’s tax cuts and his economy is only going to cause the vast majority of voters to question its distribution, as very few gained any actual ground and many stand to lose heavily.
Trickle-down economics and unfettered market capitalism are mostly seen as failed by a majority of Americans, and the current Democratic leadership and its lapdog media are rapidly becoming the first victims of that realization. Some form of single-payer healthcare has had overwhelming support among left-leaning voters since Obama hinted at it in ’08 before reversing course to give us the Republican version in the ACA. Many polls even show it having support among a majority of Republicans when not associated with a party.
As more obituaries of the victims of our current healthcare system pop up in social media and it becomes evident that there is no such thing as free-market capitalism in the industry that doesn’t include a price in human lives, your industry, in particular, will be properly vilified as the purveyor of death and misery that it is, especially as the public makes the connection between political coverage in the media and their advertising revenue. Buckle up, because the ride’s gonna get rough.
