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I looked this up. "10 of the 11 recessions between 1953 and 2020 began under Republican administrations”. It seems Republican = Recession.

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It seems silly to blame these on the president though, consider just the past two recessions and how little they had to do with the actions of POTUS...

They are still responsible for making the recession easier or harder or longer

The Tarifs and the way trump acts, for example, massively disrupts markets.

The funny thing is that both Trump or Biden handled the COVID shock reasonably well, but now that there isn't a global crisis, the former is hard at work creating a local one.

I mean egg prices went up because of avian flu and that was Biden's to own so seem perfectly reasonable.

Is this the avian flu that didn't turn into another worldwide pandemic?

yeah, because they killed all the birds. Funny how when science beats/stops things they don't happen.

Ok, but is it cause or effect? Maybe Republicans do well when there is fear about the economy and a recession is coming.

Depends. If it's a Republican president in office, we must look at many factors, it's a difficult thing, y'see, many variables and such, market fluctuations, etc. etc. etc.

If it's a Dem president in office? 100% the Dem's fault.

Isn't literally this, but unironically, what dem supporters are doing in the least voted comments here?

Why try to make it as if it was the "opposite side" doing it while I'm reading it?

Because Trump is an exception due to his abuse of executive power.

Because practical measurable result of republican policies are comparably systematically bad.

But, the way pundits and journalists write about it makes, the way discpurse goes systematically pretends literal opposite of reality.

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