Pasayten's Methow Valley Bulletin Board

Trump and Republicans in 2025:
* corporate bankruptcies the highest since 2010
* least productive Congress in modern history
* unemployment rate highest since 2021 (pandemic)
* consumer confidence near record-low
* more than 1.1 million jobs lost
* lowest hiring since 2009
* lowest first year presidential approval in modern history (again!)
* 24% of Americans satisfied with the direction of the country
* 68% say economic conditions are getting worse.
Not A+++. More like D- (being generous)

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The True Catastrophe of Trump, as seen from north of the border - A view from our neighbor
ROBERT REICH
DEC 16, 2025

Some of the most useful insights into what’s happening to America are coming from political analysts outside the United States. Here’s a particularly lucid essay by Andrew Coyne that appeared in the December 5 edition of Canada’s The Globe and Mail.

Donald Trump — and American democracy — is getting exponentially worse.

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the- ... e-of-trump