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Karl Rove advises Trump to stop gaslighting the public about the state of the economy. {The Hill 14 August}
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/6030997-rove-criticizes-trump-economy/
The millions of #MAGA acolytes amongst us could not possibly remain oblivious to the fact that they are paying more for very nearly everything. As of now, they appear to be ignoring or tolerating Trump’s lies about the economy — ‘owning the libs’ being paramount among all other considerations — and they can always be induced to blame the Democrats for anything and everything. How much economic hardship must these people yet endure before they grow weary of this man insisting that two and two make three? Why, indeed, am I even asking? We are all of us well aware that they shall go on quite literally starving to death, and shall thank Mr Trump most fervently for the privilege of doing so.
FTA: Republican strategist Karl Rove on Friday criticized President Trump’s insistence that the U.S. economy is thriving despite rising prices amid the Iran war.
Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Friday that the “economy was doing unbelievably from the standpoint of Wall Street.”
Rove told Fox News’s Gillian Turner that the president should “start by not gaslighting” the American public about the state of the economy.
“The president made a mistake, in my opinion, last week in saying we’ve got the greatest economy in the history of the world and prices for groceries and gasoline and everything are coming down rapidly,” he said. “That’s not the experience of the American people.”
Rove agreed with Vice President JD Vance’s recent assessment that “throwing slogans at people about the free market” is not an effective counter from Republicans to the rise in socialism among candidates on the left.
However, the GOP strategist added that he also had “a slight disagreement” with Vance.
“I think he’s right: you do not need to call them names, you need to depict what is wrong with socialism,” Rove said. “But frankly, free markets is one of the reasons why we’ve been successful as a country and one of the reasons why socialism is a mistake.”
🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
