Dear Harris,
Donald Trump was elected largely because Americans thought the economy was lousy, and he promised to fix it.
Now, just over eight weeks since his inauguration, the bottom is falling out.
Stocks are plunging. Consumer confidence is dropping. Inflation is picking up. Trump himself has refused to rule out a recession this year, and the poor and working class are going to suffer the most.
What worries me even more is that Trump, the ultimate pathological liar and demagogue, will surely try to put the blame on all his favorite scapegoats: immigrants, Democrats, DEI, etc., etc., and we can't count on the mainstream media to explain what's causing this disaster, what the results will be, and for whom.
But we're not going to let him get away with it.
Inequality Media has spent the last decade building a huge following across social media and mastering the art of creating easy-to-understand explainer videos and viral posts to educate the public about what's really going on with the economy.
Now we need to step it up. Will you make a monthly donation to help educate the public and hold Donald Trump accountable for his disastrous economic policies and how he is harming the working class?
Even before this Trump slump, only the richest 10 percent of Americans had enough purchasing power to keep the economy going with their spending. The bottom 90 percent — including most Trump voters — were barely getting by.
Now, with Donald Trump taking a battering ram to every major institution in America, it's getting much, much worse.
The cost of living — the single biggest problem identified by consumers over the last several years — is going up, not down. Food prices are rising as Trump's threatened 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico play havoc with supply chains inside and outside America.
Joblessness is rising as well, as corporations are pulling back from investing in new productive capacity because Trump and Musk's chaos makes it impossible for them to gauge what the future will bring. And all of this disproportionately affects the working class.
If this Trump slump turns into a recession, we know that Trump will try to lie and cheat his way out of it. So Inequality Media is fighting back by producing a daily stream of social posts and videos to educate the public, and it's working.
On YouTube alone, the "watch time" of our videos is up a remarkable 10x from one year ago, and our engagement is skyrocketing across every platform, including Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat.
However, as a grassroots-funded organization, we rely on your support for everything we do. That's why I'm asking you today: Will you make a monthly donation to help educate the public and hold Donald Trump accountable for his disastrous economic policies and how he is harming the working class?
Thank you,
Robert Reich
Inequality Media
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