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Obama’s calm allowed for Trump’s chaos. Trump’s chaos allows for Biden’s calm.

Hunter Biden’s laptop doesn’t make it to the kitchen table.

George Evans-Jones
4 min readOct 16, 2020

What happens when an economy adds two hundred thousand jobs a year for seven years in a row? Clue, it’s the same thing that happens when unemployment is cut in half, manufacturing output increases, and yes, even the stock market triples in value.

Now ask, what happens when an economy loses 1.4 million jobs in just eight months? Clue, it’s the same thing that happens when unemployment nearly reaches 15%, manufacturing plumits to pre-2008 levels, and yes, the stock market experiences its biggest drop in history.

One situation allows for a story about a private email account to dominate, and the other makes voters worry about real things: their health, their jobs, their future.

The first scenario happened in 2016. Stability, calm, whatever you call it, economic and politically almost everyone thought they knew what would happen. And so, Donald Trump, a freakish candidate in many ways was left searching for a way to beat the most qualified candidate in history who possessed every single institutional advantage imaginable.

That environment, everything about it, was rife for Trump’s chaos. And I mean complete chaos…

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George Evans-Jones
George Evans-Jones

Written by George Evans-Jones

Writing mostly on US politics from across the pond. Occasionally detour into sports/sport performance, and UK politics/culture.

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