Right-wing radio host blasts GOP for 'adopting the Democrat script' on failing economy
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Conservative blogger Erick Erickson speaking at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, Image via Gage Skidmore / Flickr.
Right-wing Christian broadcaster Erick Erickson blasted Congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump for ignoring the steep drop off in job postings on Indeed.
“There are so many warning signs about the economy and Republicans have now adopted the Democrat script of claiming everything is fine,” said Erickson on X, responding to a post by market watchdog Kobeissi Letter.
“Job postings on Indeed fell -6.4 percent [year over year] in the week ending October 31st, now at the lowest level since February 2021,” Kobeissi claims. “Postings have now declined -36.9 percent since the April 2022 peak. The number of available vacancies is now only +1.7 percent over pre-pandemic levels seen in February 2020. Furthermore, new job postings are just +4.1 percent above those levels.”
The global capital market monitor added that the numbers signal “further deterioration ahead in [Bureau of Labor Statistics] job openings data, which has been delayed due to the government shutdown. Labor market weakness is spreading.”
Erickson earlier reposted consumer confidence numbers from public opinion pollster and political analyst Scott Rasmussen,president of RMG Research, showing just 26 percent of voters said their finances are getting better, and another 39 percent saying they are getting worse. Those numbers, registering at the time of the Tuesday off-year election, were down sharply from two weeks ago when 31 percent of people surveyed said “better” and 31 percent claimed “worse.”
Those same surveys showed “voters are now nearly as pessimistic as they were just before Donald Trump won the 2024 election.”
Commenters on X piled on the numbers, with one self-avowed "Reagan conservative," describing modern Republican indifference as "very foolish, especially considering that we saw how mad people got when Biden told us the economy was good while everyone saw their prices going up. It looks like Trump learned nothing from this.”
MSNBC reported that Trump promised to bring prices down and deliver a booming economy. Now in the White House, the president and Republicans “are making the same mistake as Democrats during Joe Biden’s presidency” in trying to convince voters that the economy is better than it is.
“It didn’t work for Democrats, and it won’t work for Republicans and Trump,” MSNBC reports.