A short time ago, if you asked Republicans just about anything, the response was always the same, why aren’t you talking about the Dow Jones? You could ask about ICE or the Epstein files, and it didn’t matter, the answer always came back to the same, the Dow is soaring, it’s over 50,000, look at how great things are. Every voice across the party had the same message, not just Donald Trump, but also Pam Bondi, J. D. Vance, and Karoline Leavitt. Pam Bondi answered questions at a hearing, or rather, didn’t answer them, by responding that people should be asking about the Dow Jones. The Dow Jones had nothing to do with the hearing, but that was still her go-to response. No matter what the question was, for each of them, the response was the same over and over again. It was like they were pointing at the Dow Jones as if it were a scoreboard to validate their victory. That was the proof that what they were doing was right. Now, suddenly, that has disappeared. Now that Donald Trump has led the country into a war, the message has completely changed. If you bring up the Dow Jones now, you’re told we are at war, that the focus needs to be on national security, and that this is no time to be talking about the economy. How can you think about money when we are trying to keep Americans safe? So which is it? When the stock market was a political win, it was the only thing that mattered. You could point to serious issues including the fatal shootings of civilians in Minneapolis during ICE operations and the response would still be, “Have you seen the Dow Jones?” You could raise questions about how often Trump was mentioned in the Epstein files, and it was the same, , “Have you seen the Dow Jones?” Now that it’s not a convenient talking point anymore, it’s brushed off like it was never all that important. Well now, maybe they can go back and answer the questions they were ignoring all along. Well actually those questions aren't important anymore, we are in a war after all.
