Is Trump Trying To Weaken The Resistance Of The American People By Destroying The Economy?

About this episode

The episode discusses the potential intentional economic decline under Trump and its impact on democracy and the American people's resistance.

The Daily is outside the Beltway journalism that is fighting for democracy. Please support us by becoming a subscriber.Donald Trump seems to be doing everything that he can to distract people from the failing economy and rising prices, but what if economic decline isn’t a bug, but an intended feature of Trump’s presidency?Sarah Jones was on Deadline DC with Brad Bannon and she connected rising prices and democracy: It's heartbreaking for people who are out there, who are retired, who are on Social Security, people who worked hard their whole lives, people who don't have a social safety net anymore to think about, they're not looking at how can I make all these cuts so I can afford my groceries?The Daily is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.They're thinking. Do I have to pick between my rent and my groceries? And that is a horrible tragedy in this country where we have all of these billionaires now and the wealth disparity just exploding. It just reminds me of those stories out of Russia about how many people can't afford to eat.And I think some of that is deliberate to weaken people to when…

People in this episode

Guest: Sarah Jones

Topics covered

• Trump presidency
• economic decline
• wealth disparity
• democracy
• social safety net

Keywords

• Trump
• economy
• democracy
• wealth disparity
• social security

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Deadline DC, The Daily

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