Trump's 'Low' Economy Score: A Reminder of American Amnesia
When Newsweek highlights a supposed 'all-time low' for Trump's economic approval, one might wonder: 'low' for whom? For the average working family, the economy has been a low-grade constant crisis for decades, pandemic or no pandemic. The corporate media, of course, tends to equate a booming stock market with a healthy economy, completely ignoring stagnant wages, rising healthcare costs, and
crushing debt for most of the populace. This framing allows them to performative outrage over a president's 'approval' while conveniently overlooking the systemic economic disparities that persist regardless of who's in the White House. (It's almost as if the system is rigged for a select few, no matter the political theatre.) Perhaps the 'low' wasn't Trump's approval, but the collective memory of
what 'good' economic times actually felt like for the vast majority of Americans before the pandemic became the convenient scapegoat for every existing problem. They call it 'news,' we call it selective amnesia. Let's not pretend pre-COVID was a worker's paradise, unless your primary concern was the Dow Jones.