Wednesday, August 06, 2025

Redneck recession hits working-class the hardest

Donald Trump claims America is "the hottest country anywhere in the world". On Wall Street, there are plenty of signs that this is true. But underneath the gloss of an artificial intelligence boom and surging Wall Street profits, all is not well. America is grappling with an alarming jobs slowdown, a frozen housing market, a small business crunch and crumbling consumer confidence. The US president may have delivered a booming stock market, but economists warn he is pushing many sectors into recession. His working class Maga support base will be the worst hit.

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More: "Manufacturing is in recession. Construction is in a deep recession. Transportation and distribution is in recession. Wholesaling is in recession. Retail is holding on by its thumbs, it's very close," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics.

He believes that as much as a third of the US economy is already effectively in recession.

"The industries that are going to get nailed, they're the kind of working class, low-to-middle income kind of job," Zandi says.

In other words, Trump has succeeded in splitting the US economy in two: while Wall Street and Silicon Valley are booming, the rest of the country is suffering a redneck recession. The working classes who helped Trump return to the White House are now suffering.

"We have an economy with really just one dynamic sector, the tech sector," says Dean Baker, the senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), a think tank.

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2025-08-06 01:14 PM

The GOP is a Death Cult.

And they're very excited to finally get what they voted for.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-06 01:21 PM

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