1) Minorities Have Fared Much Better Under Trump Than Biden
In yesterday’s HOTLINE we showed the strong economic record for middle class households under Donald Trump’s presidency compared to the Obama years and the Biden years.
Now let’s compare economic progress for blacks, Hispanics and Asians under these two presidents.
Each of these groups has experienced higher income gains under Trump than under Biden. For example, the chart shows that blacks’ real incomes rose by an average of $4,500 under Trump - or five times higher than under Biden (through the most recent Census Bureau year 2022). Hispanics saw a $5,280 gain under Trump versus $320 under Biden. And Asians saw an amazing near $10,000 average family income rise under Trump - and six times the gains under Biden.
Yet, we are bombarded with messages from the media that Trump is a racist. Biden is now running TV ads in battleground states accusing Trump of setting blacks back. Biden is doing a pretty good job of that himself.
Axios points out an interesting phenomenon in polling results that could be problematic for Conservatives.
Polls today show that while more than two of three Americans say their personal finances are at least “OK,” more than two-thirds also say that the national economy is only fair or poor. This gap has been steadily rising. We call this the "I’m OK, You’re Not OK" dynamic in public perceptions.
The problem for Conservatives is that voters tend to vote on their own personal finances, not how other people are doing.
This may explain why Republicans did so poorly in the midterm elections in 2022 despite great expectations.
This also explains why the economy is so much BETTER when conservative policy were implemented. (See above.)
For America, just doing “OK” isn’t OK. The economy grew a measly 1.3% in the first quarter of this year and high prices are still robbing families of their incomes. As JFK famously declared when running for president in 1960 and promising to double the growth rate from 2% to 4%: “We can do Bettah.”
Anthony Fauci deserves to go down in the annals of American history as one of the great villains of all time, right up there alongside Benedict Arnold, John Wilkes Booth, and the Rosenbergs.
In our comprehensive Lessons Learned Covid report, we showed that Fauci's signature policy package of lockdowns, closures, and mandates was an economic, education, and health catastrophe, killing about 25 times as many people as it saved.
But during his testimony, Fauci, unswayed by reality, regrets nothing even as of yesterday. Texas Rep. Michael Cloud ran through this list, and Fauci defended every single one:
Fauci defends it all by saying it made sense "early on when 5,000 people were dying a day." It's unclear why a high death total from a virus would justify layering a man-made epidemic on top of viral deaths via lockdowns and societal disruption if those actions don't have any significant effect on viral transmission. And they didn't. But we were also struck that he used such a wildly inflated number.
The actual first wave daily death peak (underlying cause of death COVID) per CDC's WONDER database was 2324, for the week ending April 18, 2020.
The all-time peak was 3415, for the week ending January 9, 2021 -- after many, many months of failed Faucism.
He’s still lying about the numbers to spread fear right to the end.
Fauci also claimed to know nothing about his adviser's FOIA avoidance scheme or the "secret backchannel" to him. He likely lied repeatedly about his funding of gain of function research and suppression of dissent on lab leak. He basically denied everything and then headed over to CNN for a celebratory interview.
The sudden decision of Nigel Farage (a close friend of Donald Trump’s) to become leader of Britain’s Reform Party and directly challenge the ruling and disintegrating Conservative Party could elevate him to the status of the leading voice of the right in Britain.
Certainly, Britain’s Conservatives are in deadly peril. Having called a snap election for July 4, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces polls that show the left-wing Labour Party on track for a huge win.
Farage freely admits that Labour will win. His goal is to “reshape the center-right.”
Farage, the new leader of Britain’s Reform Party, says the “political revolt” will start with a “Contract With The People” - a nod to Newt Gingrich’s 1994 Contract With America – which includes slashing tax rates for small and large businesses, expanding private healthcare options to ease overcrowding in the National Health Service, and enacting tough measures on illegal immigration, which is out of control in Britain.
The Conservative party is in shambles because it doesn’t stand for any principles anymore. They want to spend and tax as much as the Labour Party. There are few degrees of separation.
We hope that Farage can become the new Margaret Thatcher of the right and the forgotten classes of England – and the figure who made Britain great again.
5) Congress’s Truth Detector Reads the HOTLINE Into Congressional Record
One of our many, many prominent readers of the Hotline, Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina, continues to insert Hotline items into the Congressional Record where they will live in immortality. Thanks Joe for telling the truth!
