Expert Opinions
What Democrats Must Do When the Trump Bubble Bursts
The US economy has been expanding since June 2009, in the longest period of unbroken, if slow, economic growth in US history. But when the Trump bubble inevitably bursts, will Democrats get caught holding the bag? And what will that mean for US politics? Economic expansions in capitalist countries cannot last forever. And the front-loaded tax cuts sustaining this one, passed by the Republican Congress in 2017, will start to expire right after the 2020 election.