

For decades Republicans wanted to ‘starve the beast’, and they are now close to actually succeeding. It’ll be interesting once the dimmed bulbs in the red stats discover that their life style was basically possible by government policies transferring wealth from the blue coastal states to their backward ass states.
Economy is something else than the stockmarket. In fact, I’d say the two have absolutely nothing in common anymore. The stockmarket is a casino, with Joe Average losing everything once in a while.