The Long Shadow Of Covid-19

Trump claimed his tariffs would bring about a golden age of American manufacturing.

Yet since his re-election, we've lost 75,000 manufacturing jobs. Over the same period, Biden had created 625,000. pic.twitter.com/gR7ZPrrFto

— Steve Rattner (@SteveRattner) July 20, 2026

Biden dug the economy out of the pit Trump and Covid-19 put us in. It wasn’t enough.

And now Trump has MAGAed the economy, and the GOP, and GOP officeholders are surprised this isn’t going to end well for them, and are reportedly blaming Trump.

I should read up on the history of the Spanish Flu epidemic, and what it did to the national economy and psyche. 

I think a lot of this should be seen as the long , slow crawl out from under the catastrophe that was Covid-19. It ain’t over ‘til it’s over; and it ain’t over.