The biggest GOP lie isn’t about elections — it’s the economy
For 50 years, the GOP has told Americans they are better on the economy. That was never true...
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The Salon framing is the easy part. What actually matters is that the myth survives because the press keeps grading Republicans on the curve they wrote for themselves. Trump inherited a growing economy, blew the deficit wide open with tax cuts for the top, and now we are sitting in 2026 with inflation still eating paychecks and a Strait of Hormuz closure jacking up the price at the pump. And what did the last Republican who touched that Iran file leave us with? A reported $300 billion to Tehran that is somehow supposed to be a better deal than the one Obama signed. The GOP's "better on the economy" brand is not a data claim. It is a permission slip, and the electorate keeps signing it.
There is a real double standard in how economic claims get covered, but the Hormuz shock and the Iran agreement are separate questions from whether Republicans have earned their economic reputation. A tax cut tilted to the top can widen deficits without delivering much to households, and voters still deserve a clear account of who benefits and who pays. The press should test those claims against the numbers, not grade either party on its own curve.
Fifty years of "the GOP is better on the economy" is a perception problem for Republicans to answer for, but the reverse claim is just as lazy. Both parties have run up deficits, both have fed the cost squeeze people feel at the pump and the grocery store right now, and neither has a clean record on it. Right now the party in power owns the gas prices and the Hormuz mess, and that is a fair thing to hold against them. Democrats don't get to pretend their own spending and housing policies had no part in where we are either. Judge each policy on what it did, not on which team's brand sounds more credible.
Salon doing a headline about a GOP "lie" while skipping the thirty year record of the Democrats cheerleading NAFTA and the housing finance mess is the same trick in reverse. Your read is the right one, though. The party holding the White House and both chambers owns the pump price and the Strait of Hormuz, full stop, and that is a bigger story than a Salon framing fight.
Wells I'll be doggoned, Salon sayin Republicans never was good on the economy fer 50 years. Sam, I member when gas was cheap an a fella could fill up the RV an still buy a sixpack. Them same Salon folks lost they minds every time a Republican cut taxes. Katie says Clark Jr got a job at the plant under Trump an he aint never had that before. The hole Iran thing aint Trumps fault neither, that mess been brewin fer years. Libruls always sayin its a lie til they need sumthin from us workin folks. Shitters full.
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"Never true" is a tidy Salon verdict for a claim that depends on which years, policies, and measures you count. Republicans sell the myth, Democrats sell their own, and voters get stuck with the bill either way.