A depressing read and the confusing, disconnected backdrop against which we seek enlightenment on how the DOW may perform
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An excerpt from the article …
[[[ The revival that the Democrats promised – that electing Biden would end the pandemic chaos, restore unity within America and respect for it abroad – has fizzled. Under Trump, many Americans died of COVID-19. But electing Biden did not magically kill off the virus and Biden has presided over as many deaths again – more, depending on from when you’re counting.
Strained supply chains are leaving some supermarket shelves bare, rapid antigen tests are scarce enough to be rationed and Biden’s attempt to turn around the pandemic death toll with a wide-ranging vaccine-or-test mandate enforced through government agencies was kiboshed by the Supreme Court. A week before Biden’s anniversary, inflation hit 7 per cent for the first time in 40 years.
As Grover Norquist, president of the Reagan-inspired Americans for Tax Reform, says to me during a visit to the capital: “that is a 7 per cent wage cut for all Americans”. These are not good times for Democrats. In pre-Trump times, Republicans would be rubbing their hands. But these are not good times for Republicans either, despite a steady rise in support for the party throughout 2021, which now puts it ahead of the Democrats.
The prospect of a second Trump candidacy is dividing the party. Worse, this is not an argument many feel they can have openly.Trump has nurtured an active and engaged base which brands Republicans who don’t buy into the stolen election narrative as unpatriotic. The “big lie” is still persuading many voters; an Axios poll found that only just over half of Americans accept that Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election. ]]]
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