Economy and 2020

[BeyondGeography]

6. The economy is shit for most people. They are either broke or in debt up to their ears.

Cede the economy to Trump and you guarantee four more years of Trump, who actually knows he’s vulnerable or he wouldn’t be asking Betsy DeVos to channel Warren and come up with a student debt relief plan:

WaPo: Eyeing populist challenge from the left, Trump seeks plan to tackle student debt

President Trump is demanding aides present a plan to tackle student debt and the rising cost of a college education, worried that he has no response to expansive plans from Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats he may face on the ballot next year, several administration officials said.

But a battle is underway inside the administration over what to propose, with little appetite for the big spending that Democrats want and no success identifying a more modest plan that will satisfy the president, aides said.

The internal frustrations and failure to come up with a student debt plan are feeding the president’s anxieties that Democrats such as Warren will tap into populist impulses that propelled his 2016 victory, and that he will need policies beyond his signature areas of immigration and trade to counter them...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/eyeing-populist-challenge-from-the-left-trump-seeks-plan-to-tackle-student-debt/2019/12/05/bbb002f8-16aa-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html%3foutputType=amp