Would Trump’s Authoritarianism Make Life Better for American Workers?

Tim Libretti, PhD
4 min readOct 30, 2024

While Vice President Kamala Harris has no doubt experienced success in inspiring confidence in more and more American voters that she can manage the economy effectively and improve their lives, the electorate still remains divided, polls indicate (see here and here), and hence collectively uncertain about whether Donald Trump or Vice President will pursue economic policy that will positively impact their lives and address their real worries.

We could go on and on quoting myriad economists, including Nobel-prize winners, who indicate Trump’s proposed policies would balloon inflation and basically be a disaster for the U.S. economy.

We could go on and on reminding voters of what Trump’s economy was really like–as opposed to the distorted memory he peddles–recalling how how his tax cuts benefited the wealthy while poverty and homeless increased during his administration, how he opposed raising the minimum wage because he thinks wages are too high, or how he tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act with no replacement, threatening the health care of millions of Americans.

We could listen to John Giles, Republican Mayor of Mesa, Arizona, who voiced his support for Kamala Harris because his city suffered under Trump’s rule and thrived under the Biden-Harris economy, experiencing job…

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Tim Libretti, PhD
Tim Libretti, PhD

Written by Tim Libretti, PhD

Professor of Literature, Political Economy enthusiast, Dad, always thinking about the optimal world

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