Republicans Say Inflation, Crime, and Immigration Are Out of Control. The Numbers Disagree.

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Every day, good news overshadows the Republican presidential candidates’ talking points. The right-wing Cassandras need a new shtick.

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There’s one problem with this Republican portrayal of a Democratic president presiding over chaos: None of it is true.

Inflation was at a 40-year high. During 2022, the inflation rate started at 7.5 percent, peaked in June at 9.1 percent, and ended the year at 6.5 percent, a mark that hadn’t been cleared since June 1982.

Has southern border security collapsed? Hardly. Unlawful entries have dropped by 70 percent in the last few weeks, according to the Department of Homeland Security, after Biden implemented a new border management policy.

Republicans may talk up crime, and there are no shortages of alarming anecdotes, but there is no Biden crime wave. “Murder is down about 12 percent year-to-date in more than 90 cities that have released data for 2023, compared with data as of the same date in 2022,” according to crime data analyst Jeff Asher, writing in The Atlantic, a trend that could lead to “one of the largest annual percent changes in murder ever recorded.” That follows a 4 percent drop in homicides in 2022 from the prior year, according to the Council on Criminal Justice analysis of data from 35 cities. In fact, over the past five years, the worst month for homicides was July 2020—when Trump was president.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Trump's whole shit blast is about how horrible the country is.

It was horrible in the last two years of trump as a fact.

[republianmushroom]

2. agree

but would change the last 2 years to the last 6 years.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

3. Republicans lie.

If we could deport all MAGAts to Russia, we could have the American dream.

[Aristus]

4. Don't forget, this is also in the best interests of the gun manufacturers.

They need to keep painting American life as a post-apocalyptic, ultra-violent, Mad-Max nightmare, or they won't be able to sell military-style weaponry to the soft-bellied suburban Rambo wannabes out there.