Posted on 07/20/2018 6:39:04 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
Slate’s chief political correspondent Jamelle Bouie wrote in an opinion-editorial published Wednesday that journalists are on a mission to weaken the support of Donald Trump’s base, arguing the administration’s economic agenda could a drive wedge between the president and his voters.
Jamelle Bouie claims President Trump’s policies aimed at countering Beijing’s unfair trade practices, including the application of tariffs on Chinese products, could lead to higher prices for everyday products and mass layoffs around the country.
The Slate political correspondent writes:
For the better part of two years now, reporters have been trying to find the issue or offense that could fracture Donald Trump’s base of support. They have traveled to “Trump country” for regular updates from working-class whites and other key Trump constituents, only to find that those voters have been unmoved by each controversy. But if there’s anything that could break the president’s hold on his base, it might be an economic agenda that harms their pocketbooks and hurts their livelihoods. …
Rather than bring jobs back, Trump started a burgeoning trade war that threatens to raise prices on consumer goods, undercut business investment, and produce thousands of layoffs. And those losses may hit Trump voters hardest. “Tariff-exposed jobs are more than twice as likely to fall in counties that voted for Republican Donald Trump in 2016 than in counties won by Democrat Hillary Clinton,” reports the Washington Post. “There are more than 1 million jobs exposed to China tariffs in more than 2,600 counties carried by Trump, and fewer than 564,000 exposed jobs in Clinton’s counties.”
Meanwhile, Trump’s tax cuts have done little to stimulate economic growth or improve workers’ wages. “Worker pay in the second quarter dropped nearly one percent below its first-quarter level,” reports CBS News.
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Sucking up the alternative universe kool-aid!
“Rather than Bring jobs back” ... ??? Tell that to the millions of people who have moved from unemployed to employed or part time to full time jobs since PDJT took office.
Ain’t gonna happen..........................
“Reporters” are democrats with press passes. They ensure that the campaign against republicans continues after elections.
No surprise. We all know the MSM is just the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party. Oh and the tax and regulatory cuts have turbocharged the economy so the denial of that is a blatant lie.
All they have left to sell is trying to scare people about the possible negative future consequences of trade wars. Of course you have to believe that Trump isn’t just engaging in hardball negotiations to get fairer trade deals like he’s said he would do all along. This effort on the MSM’s/Democrat’s part will also fail.
It’s having the opposite effect. I more trump now than I ever was. The media onslaught coming right after 8 years of a media love fest with Obama just magnifies the hypocrisy and phoniness of it all for me.
What was U.S. unemployment in 1988, when Red China was a relative cipher in trade, Hong Kong was free, and our biggest trading deficit was with a first world country with similar payscales (Japan)?
The one honest and truthful part of her political slime.
Yes, the overwhelming majority of journalists in America are trying to defeat Our President that was duly elected by the voters. They have taken it upon themselves to decide that we were wrong when we know we were right based on results.
Our nation is much better because of Donald Trump. Your libtard notions, theories and scheming will fall on deaf ears.
Keynesian Schmuck
Just wondering what African $hit hole Jamelle Boie came from?
Rush has been saying this for months....
The Democrat Party is and will destroy itself internally. With Maxine Waters burning the USA flag, Whoopie Goldberg going insane on TV, buffoon, John Brennan calls Trump “Treason”, this moron woman, ill informed, nutcase, Socialist/Communist, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and idiot babbling Elizabeth Warren....they are campaigning quite effectively for POTUS, Donald J. Trump.
Trump and the Trumpsters will be smiling and happy in the evening of the Mid-Term election day, November 6, 2018. Sad to say, but...the Democrat Party is currently, “Dumb, Dumber & Dumbest!!! Case closed!!!
All these so called journalists do is make support for POTUS stronger and firmer because we know what they are up to.
Yeah—Good luck with that.
For that to happen his base would have to actually be PAYING ATTENTION to the mainstream media (which we are not).
They’re going about it all wrong
It seems the Slate article could be used as the very definition of Trump Derangement Syndrome...
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