03-03-2020, 10:46 PM
(03-03-2020, 07:03 AM)sbarrera Wrote: If COVID-19 makes it very plain that Trump has business being President, then this year will prove to be the end of the Trump era. Only the really, really diehard Trumpsters will be able to stay loyal to him.
Very quietly, a week of losses and today (after a short-lived rally on Monday) in stock market valuations has given a 9.1% decline in the DJIA. That is roughly two months... and even if such is not an official quarter for the stock market or the American economy, it is 63 days.
It was only a matter of time before the longest bull market in American history came to an end. Trump has been taking credit for the Market as Obama didn't. Obama wisely let others draw their own conclusions.
I don't know what it will take to convince the die-hard Trump supporters that he is a failure... heck, many Hitler supporters were not convinced that their idol was a disaster until they saw American, British, or Soviet tanks in their towns.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.