Trump voters are 'taking it on the chin': Bad job numbers are worse for 'Cletus'

Bulwark editor Jonathan Last reminded Trump voters that the president’s latest awful job numbers include their jobs, too, in a piece entitled, "What Happens When Cletus Loses His Job?"

“Trump’s Forgotten Man^TM is taking it on the chin,” said Last, acknowledging that the U.S. economy added just 22,000 jobs. “Mining, oil, and gas production lost 6,000 jobs; manufacturing lost 12,000 jobs and is net -78,000 since Trump took over.”

The health care sector was the only sector that added jobs, to the tune of 31,000 new positions. But that “22,000” overall job figure means the entire rest of the economy lost jobs.

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“If you don’t work in health care, then employment in your field contracted,” Last said, while unleashing a devastating set of charts representing the drastic difference between the Biden and Trump years, with Biden’s economy showing outlandish growth in nonfarm payroll, a drop in the unemployment rate and Trump’s decline in construction spending — a reliable indicator of an encroaching recession.

“It’s complicated but I’m pretty sure that if I make the arrows big enough, even [Trump voters] … can understand it,” Last said.

“I cannot emphasize enough that all of this is volitional: America chose stagflation,” Last wrote. “We had the best economy in the world for four years. Biden’s team achieved the kind of mythical soft-landing that gives economists wet dreams. Unemployment stayed low; the inflation which crept into the system for twelve months was quickly tamed. Boat sales — my favorite indicator of Trump voter prosperity—hit historic highs.

“Yet Trump campaigned explicitly on (1) imposing massive, economy-disrupting tariffs and (2) increasing government debt,” Last said. “He told voters exactly what he was going to do. And instead of having even a basic understanding of economics, a plurality of voters said, Well s——, Lurleen. I done seen Mister Trump on the teevee and he’s a business man. He’ll do the economy good.”

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