After Six Months, Let's Look At The Lefty Prophets Of Doom Vs. Reality

<![CDATA[It's hard to believe, because of all the winning, but six months of the second term of President Donald Trump is in the books. As soon as the election results were clear last November 5th, the doomsaying on the left kicked into high gear, and for the most part, has not wavered in forecasting cataclysm to follow. Except a funny thing happened. The doom loop guaranteed with certainty by the soothsayers and political analysts on the left has just not materialized. Three days before the election, Vice-President Kamala Harris predicted that if Trump were to win, and after this first six months, thank Almighty God he did, we'd be in a recession by the middle of the following year, meaning now.  When Trump began imposing the tariffs in March, Democrats in both Houses of Congress began to forecast economic doom ahead. Here's Delaware Senator Chris Coons, the same Biden 2024 co-chair that had no idea Joe Biden's mental faculties had fallen further and faster than the Dow.  Chuck Schumer in the Senate and Hakeem Jeffries in the House both tried to make 'Trump slump' go viral. Maybe if they would have been caught on a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert, they could have had that moment. Instead, we had weeks and weeks of Resistance media clips like this one featuring Brendan Boyle of Pennsylvania, wishcasting a recession for which they could blame the President. Inflation is in the mid-2's. Unemployment is holding steady at 4.1%. Private sector jobs are increasing while federal jobs are decreasing. GDP estimates for Q2 are around 2.4%, hardly a recession. What instead has taken place are trade deals with the United Kingdom, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, and India right around the corner, all of them reducing barriers to entry for U.S. goods in their markets, while raising revenue on goods coming into the United States. That tariff revenue has already exceeded $100 billion, and is already being used to help offset the deficit. In short, the Trump recession never happened, and virtually no one, outside of the doomsayers on the left, are talking about the country entering a recession this year any longer. David Montgomery in the Washington Post, going all the way back to October 10th, 2022, imagined a January 20th, 2025 world with Donald Trump re-inaugurated. Here's just a sample:]]>