No matter: The canny Clinton campaign still ran on the directive “It’s the economy, stupid” and the slogan “Putting people first.” The doom-and-gloom, near-depression “recession” rhetoric, together with Perot’s third-party candidacy and Bush’s sluggish campaign, won Clinton the presidency with 43% of the popular vote. Whether the pseudo-recession of 2025-26 works as well as the fake 1992 recession now hinges on whether Trump learns from the past — and from now on fixates on the economy.
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Published at: 2025-12-31 22:35:14
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