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This is pretty much the MAGA base, yeah.
A lot of them voted for Trump simply because they thought the economy would be better under him. Not sure what happened during his first term that made them feel that way.
The dollar generally went further than the four years after he left office and that was his entire campaign selling point for the vast majority of Americans. "Remember when things were affordable right before the pandemic? And then Joe Biden took office and things were more expensive?"
But obviously the affordability of day to day life had very little to do with Biden's policy and more to do with global trajectory and many of Biden's policies did slow the approach to today's economy. And Trump really just strapped a rocket engine to the economy in the direction of late stage capitalism once he was back in office.
Almost like he just sorta, lied to them... Like he always has....
Because the average American voter's memory is so fucking short they don't remember all the shit that made the dollar go farther was scheduled to end right after his term ended. They don't remember how the first teem was full of 'all gas no breaks' economic relief to pump up the market, so there was little to no wiggle room once they ran out.
Plus, that whole pandemic thing. And we're not getting into how he made that so much worse, that's a whole other topic.
Well it was the covid recession that made everything cheaper, things were cheaper because a ton of people lost their jobs and went broke.
Huh, what? No. No it did not.
His team had all the cherry picked numbers to "prove" it went further, bit if you believe that, tell you what - I got some prime lakefront property you might be interested in! It's on the moon, though...
Your actual spending power will never increase under Republican leadership. Fucking never. Fuck sake, these are the assholes that sold "trickle down economics".
No, he won because bigotry. Nothing else.
Don't discount that we're all much more influenced by the extremely powerful, corporately owned media propaganda macine than any of us would like to believe.
I think I was trying to make the same general argument. Words are so much fun, aren't they?
But, yes - us Yanks don't realize we are the most heavily propagandized people in the world. Take something like the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of school, for instance; in Amerikkka, normal. But everyone else finds it creepy and unsettling...
Fox News lied a lot. Is what happened during his first term that made them feel that way. They were told shit was delicious and believed it.
So did cnn and nytimes, yes fox news in unabashedly shit but cnn and nytimes gave as much free adspace to trump