The Real Fact of Life

It is a real fact of life that America is far better off when a Democrat is President.

Three reasons the country does better with a Democrat in the Oval Office are:

1. Republican presidents have been slow to respond to recessions and other crises — Donald Trump and both George Bushes being examples. (Herbert Hoover was too, and the partisan gap would be even bigger if the data went back far enough to include him

2. Recent Democratic presidents have been more pragmatic, willing to listen to the evidence about when the economy would benefit from deficit reduction and when it needs government support for education, infrastructure, scientific research and more.

3. Republican presidents over the past 40 years have pursued one economic policy above all other — tax cuts, skewed heavily toward the affluent — and there is little evidence that they do much for economic growth.

The serious question that remains unanswered is if and when voters will realize that actual facts matter and they’re better off voting for their own self interests.  The other question remaining unanswered is if and when Americans will realize the extent to which they are lied to by Republican politicians and right-leaning media.