that was his number one objective was bringing tax reform into legislation. the president obviously needs a win when it comes to legislation this year, didn t happen with health care, could very well be in jeopardy with regards to tax reform. but don t underestimate the power of a good economy. there is a reason the president every single speech he gives here or abroad touts the stock market performance and touts economic growth. i think supporters and those who are not even in trump s camp will give a president the benefit of the doubt when they see the economy improving, when they see unemployment declining, and when they see the stock market continuing to rise. and that is what the president is going to be riding on, it is what he s going to continue to be talking about regardless of whether any legislation comes forward. so when you talk about the president saying this isn t an indictment on him. yes, you could argue he s a bit tone deaf. on the other hand when voters are talking a
strays from hard-line position that he had on the campaign trail, do you foresee him getting a kickback from his face when we see tweets like this? there people who wanted him to take a harder stance on china but i still think i think there is a lot of people that don t even really necessarily care what stance he takes on what. they just want to see the economy improving, national security improving, they want to see him helping them, helping the country and whether that means labeling china a currency manipulator or not. they are mostly i think agnostic to that point. i want to continue on that because i ve seen a bit of media coverage. they have described it as evolving, as flip-flopping, we know that the president, he wants to win. he wants to get results. so is he has to change course he will do that. what is the big criticism here when it does change course on these? there is changing course
too high. he s contradicted himself. there are people who voted for him believing he ll create more and better jobs. now he ll have to do just that. this piece today about what happens, you know, economies are cyclical. we haven t had a recession in a long time because the last one was so deep and took so long to come out of. but presumably there will be a recession, then you wonder how the sort of blame switch gets flipped. i don t wonder. he ll blame president obama. he ll take credit for the economy and the bailout and all the things that led to the economy improving. he ll take credit for it. the problem for democrats is they need to fight back. they can t let his messages and what he says go out and not push back against these messages. i m saying trump supporters, yes, they ll believe whatever trump says, most of them. part of the problem there it strikes me or has been the problem so far is the fact that this economy on a macro level
cyclical. we haven t had a recession in a long time because the last one was so deep and took so long to come out of. but presumably there will be a recession, then you wonder how the sort of blame switch gets flipped. i don t wonder. he ll blame president obama. he ll take credit for the economy and the bailout and all the things that led to the economy improving. he ll take credit for it. the problem for democrats is they need to fight back. they can t let his messages and what he says go out and not push back against these messages. i m saying trump supporters, yes, they ll believe whatever trump saysmost oth. part of the problem the it strikes me or has been the problem so far is the fact that this economy on a macro level looks much better than it was. then you zoom in and there s huge pockets of the country that aren t doing well and all sort of distributional problems which
economy. yet it does not seem like his party is hitting that note in grand ways as might have been done in the past. well, it s a challenge for anybody in politics for a president or a candidate, on the one hand, you don t want to look as if you don t understand, that for many, many people, wages and their own economic station has not improved, even as the overall economy has. this has gone on for decades, so it can sound tinney and false to be just roaring about america. on the other hand, the broad positive trends and you want to make it so that people can participate in that. it would be a political state for the democrats to run around saying oh, my god things are terrible, because to the voters are more likely to give them another term in office if they re buying into that rhetoric as well. it s about personal security, but also national security. because there are signs of the economy improving, they have focused so much on national