The biggest economic threat in 2018 is a power-hungry, Democrat-loving mainstream media

Jobs are com­ing back. Wages are going up. Taxes are going down. Con­sumer spend­ing is at a pre-​2007 level. The econ­omy is look­ing poised to have a strong con­tin­u­a­tion in 2018 from the progress made in 2017. There are still many things that can derail it quickly, but the biggest risk is born from a hatred of Don­ald Trump and the Repub­li­can Party.

Main­stream media knows a very impor­tant real­ity, as I detailed in my 2018 pre­dic­tions. Per­cep­tions play an impor­tant role in the strength or weak­ness of the econ­omy. When the gen­eral sen­ti­ment among Amer­i­cans is strong, the econ­omy is strong as a result. When peo­ple are fear­ful, cer­tain eco­nomic indi­ca­tors stum­ble from the con­cern. That has been the nature of the econ­omy for a few decades since mass media made news travel quickly and broadly. It’s a nature that works through or against self-​fulfilling prophecies.

The other real­ity that main­stream media under­stands is most Amer­i­cans make vot­ing deci­sion based upon per­sonal pros­per­ity. In the vot­ing booth, they aren’t as con­cerned about Israel’s embassy, net neu­tral­ity, or obnox­ious Tweets as they are the rest of the year. Their biggest con­cern is which can­di­date or party is going to make things bet­ter, eas­ier, or both for the voter and their family.

Jimmy Carter didn’t just lose to Ronald Rea­gan. He lost to the poor eco­nomic con­di­tions that rav­aged the nation through his term. Bill Clin­ton didn’t beat Bob Dole just because the Repub­li­can was bor­ing while the Demo­c­rat played the sax­o­phone. He beat Dole because the econ­omy was doing very well at the time.

It’s eas­ier to see dur­ing pres­i­den­tial elec­tion years, but it’s still preva­lent in midterm elec­tions. We vote based upon how much is in our wallets.

Some may be balk­ing right about now. If you’re read­ing this, you’re prob­a­bly the excep­tion. In fact, you’ve prob­a­bly rarely if ever voted for a Demo­c­rat since this is a con­ser­v­a­tive blog with a gen­er­ally con­ser­v­a­tive audi­ence. Those on the ide­o­log­i­cal left and right don’t look at fis­cal indi­ca­tors. Then again, many of us don’t look at any­thing other than the let­ter next to the name of the can­di­date. We’re not the peo­ple who decide elec­tions. The swing vot­ers are, and they’re the ones who vote with their wal­lets. They’re also the tar­get audi­ence for main­stream media when it comes to sway­ing elections.

We can expect the media to con­tinue their attacks on Pres­i­dent Trump. It’s almost as nat­ural for them as cov­er­ing up for Pres­i­dent Obama. The dif­fer­ence is in how they spin every­thing that hap­pens with the econ­omy. We’re already see­ing this in the way they’re spin­ning reac­tions from cor­po­rate Amer­ica to the tax cuts. As dozens of major com­pa­nies started instantly giv­ing extra money to their employ­ees fol­low­ing pas­sage of the tax cuts, main­stream media tried des­per­ately to under-​report the moves, or worse, to call them tricks by Trump-​loving cor­po­rate America.

It’s only going to get more aggres­sive from here. In 2018, you will be hard-​pressed to find any major and pos­i­tive eco­nomic news on main­stream media out­side of Fox News and WSJ that isn’t spun to some­how be a neg­a­tive. When bad eco­nomic news comes along, the prob­lem will be mag­ni­fied and the mes­sage will be amplified.

This midterm elec­tion is vin­di­ca­tion for the media… at least that’s what they hope. They can either prove they still have sway over elec­tions or they will be proven pow­er­less. The eas­i­est way they can cheat their way into power is with Demo­c­ra­tic vic­to­ries. The eas­i­est way for Democ­rats to win is for the media to declare doom and gloom over the econ­omy. How the econ­omy responds will be based upon whether or not peo­ple believe what they hear from the media or what they see in their bank accounts. Unfor­tu­nately, many will ignore the obvi­ous for the sake of the left’s inces­sant narrative.