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Democrats Are Reeling as Trump Economy Soars

&NewLine;<p>Sorry democrats&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;affordability” may not be a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;hoax” but the Trump economy is growing&comma; and all Americans will soon be feeling the recovery&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Right now&comma; by all leading indicators&comma; the left’s fearmongering about the Trump economy is looking more and more like sour grapes&period;&nbsp&semi; The recent CPI report&comma; showing inflation of 2&period;7 percent — well below the expected 3&period;1 percent — was bad political news for Democrats&period; Since &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Liberation Day” in April&comma; when President Trump rolled out tariffs aimed at resetting global trade in favor of U&period;S&period; companies&comma; the left and their media allies have warned voters that the White House’s actions would clobber our economy and set inflation soaring&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>And&comma; yet despite the Dems narrative&comma; that really hasn’t happened&period; The tariffs have only modestly boosted prices&period; Instead&comma; the Trump agenda of higher energy production&comma; lower budget deficits and lighter regulation has brought inflation down&period; While inflation averaged 5 percent annually under former President Joe Biden&comma; and in four years jumped by nearly 22 percent&comma; as of November it is rising at 2&period;7 percent&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Let’s be real about who created the current &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;affordability crisis&quest;”&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As inflation continues to recede from the lofty 9 percent level recorded under Biden&comma; voters may realize just how much damage was done by Joe’s budget-busting big government spending&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Another narrative that is under fire is that Trump-backed AI is a gift to billionaires but is going to destroy U&period;S&period; employment&comma; much like the trade pacts of the 1990s that sent jobs overseas&period; But two new studies counter that claim&period; As it turns out&comma; AI is actually creating jobs for Americans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In its&nbsp&semi;year-end note to investors&comma; investment firm Vanguard writes&nbsp&semi;that AI is&nbsp&semi;not responsible for slowing&nbsp&semi;job growth&period;&nbsp&semi;They point to data showing that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the approximately 100 occupations most exposed to AI automation are actually outperforming the rest of the labor market in terms of job growth and real wage increases&period;”&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The authors of the&nbsp&semi;study&nbsp&semi;suggest that&nbsp&semi;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;current AI systems are generally enhancing worker productivity and shifting workers’ tasks toward higher-value activities&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>These projections are reassuring&comma; since the left has been issuing gruesome predictions about the rapid growth of AI&period; To quote Bernie Sanders&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;there is a very real fear that&comma; in the not-so-distant future&comma; a super-intelligent AI could replace humans in controlling the planet&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Even assuming there is some truth to Bernie’s alarmism&comma; if the U&period;S&period; slows down its AI push&comma; China will surpass us&period; Do we really want China dominating the manufacturing of the future&quest; No — to let China take the lead would be dangerous indeed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>But the real truth is that Dems want to create roadblocks to AI to slow Trump’s success&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>If the economy is humming next year&comma; with real wages rising&comma; inflation moderating and productivity rising — which is likely — Republicans could well keep control of the House&period; That would give Trump two more years to work on resetting global trade&comma; reforming our fraud-riddled welfare programs improving our broken immigration system and possibly to move to other ambitions&comma; like buttressing voter integrity&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The simply left cannot tolerate that prospect&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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