BTRTN July 2019 Month in Review: Will the Democrats Take the Plunge?
Born To Run The Numbers provides its review of the month of July, when the impeachment drumbeat grew ever louder, and Trump laid out his 2020 campaign strategy in all its divisive savagery. The Dems decided a good way to move forward was to attack Barack Obama(!), and Robert Mueller finally emerged from silence with, well, little more than a bunch of affirmative grunts.
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2019/08/btrtn-july-2019-month-in-review-will.html
Excerpts:
"Trump’s approval rating held at 43% for the third straight month. Our 'Trumpometer' measure of economic strength under Trump since his Inaugural dropped from +20 last month to +12 on a tepid Q2 GDP growth rate. Throughout the month Trump revealed his 2020 race-baiting campaign strategy in a series of ugly attacks, first on 'The Squad,' four U.S. representatives who are women of color, then on U.S. representative Elijah Cummings and the city of Baltimore. The 'impeachment now' movement gained momentum...
"On the foreign policy front, Trump suffered more setbacks. Iran announced it would soon breach the uranium enrichment levels established in the 2015 deal that Trump unilaterally withdrew from, with the strategy that ramping up sanctions would tank the Iranian economy and force them back to the negotiating table weakened and willing to go further in concessions. That strategy not only shows no sign of working...
"Trump also signed off on a Budget agreement with the Dems that was largely viewed as a Pelosi win (and which the GOP could not pass without significant Democratic help). One remembers a Trump campaign promise that he would not only eliminate the deficit but the entire debt in an 8-year year – yes, eliminate the entire $20 trillion of debt. Ah, good old GOP orthodoxy – tough on the Russians, tough on the debt, tough, tough, tough. Where has that GOP gone? (The debt is now just under $22 trillion.)"
