Trump looks increasingly out of touch and his disapproval rating is at an all-time high – which partly explains Tuesday’s election results
It’s the economy, stupid, as the timeworn saying goes, and affordability in particular. The age of aspiration has given way to the age of anxiety. The price of incumbency is that restless voters always believe that the grass is greener on the other side.
A year ago Democrats were punished for “bad vibes” around the cost of living for the middle class, however much they protested that the economic data was positive. In that climate Trump represented change: at rally after rally, he promised to lower prices from day one. Many voters felt it was worth taking a gamble in case he was right.
Now the tables are turned. Trump occupies the White House but inflation remains hard to crack. The period from July to August saw the biggest month-to-month jump in grocery prices in three years. And average grocery prices in September were about 2.7% higher than they were a year earlier. There have been especially steep increases in the prices of coffee (up 18.9%) and beef and veal (up 14.7%).
Forgot? Do they really think he intended to do something about inflation?
He said he would. Why would he lie? 🙄
Promise? When the fuck did the fat lard pedophile promise anything?
He lied. He always lies. Only a complete moron would believe anything he says.
I had to laugh when they were campaigning toward the end of his first failed term under the slogan “Promises made, promises kept”. 🤣
What promises were made? To who? When were they made? And most importantly: what promises were kept? Even by the yahoo metric used by dipshits of racist things like building a stupid wall - utter failure. The only thing I saw him “achieve” was giving a gigantic tax break to the already-affluent.
“He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting”
I guess these dumbfucks will just never learn. They thought Donbald was going to only target the people with melanin economically.
Turns out it is really hard to be that precise, and also: Donbald doesn’t give a flying fuck about the whites that voted for him, either.
Truthfully, Mamdani’s win wasn’t really surprising to me nor were many of the other results. I suppose, as others have pointed out, it was the margins that were a bit unexpected.
I’m still not feeling super confident about the longer term picture. This election cycle wasn’t even a mid-term election and from what I can tell anecdotally, non-political people and folks roughly in the center still weren’t / aren’t particularly energized or motivated to vote. So, I get the feeling (and I’m happy to be wrong, btw) that this was energized Dems/left versus a more tepid round of solid Rep/right voters this time. I feel like next year, when the center is more engaged and/or more people have polarized based on the economy (for working class) … that’s the point where one party or the other is going to start paying the price.
