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On the contrary. The voted for their own economic interests and ignored the culture war. Economics was the number one issue.
It was a reactionary response though. The fantasy of going back to low grocery prices is just that. Or are we actually going to pursue deflation?

I don't see any policy there, just platitudes.

On every objective measure the US has the best economy it has had in...pretty much ever. So they voted for "their own economic interests" by voting in a guy with plans that every economist says will be absolutely disastrous and will not only massively spike unemployment, it will lead to far greater prices for American consumers.

Trump's plan for grocery prices is to put massive tariffs on grocery imports and to deport millions of workers. There is no one with a functioning logic cortex who doesn't see the problem with this plan. But at least they can rest comfortably knowing that the Musks, Sacks and Bezos' of the world will get a killer tax break for their next yacht.

American elections are the guy in the big suburban house complaining that filling up his F350 costs a little more than it did during COVID shutdowns and thinking that somehow the guy floating insane plans is going to fix it. It's bizarre.

> On every objective measure the US has the best economy it has had in...pretty much ever.

Except the one metric that really counts: People can't afford their basic needs.

> So they voted for "their own economic interests" by voting in a guy with plans that every economist says

You mean leftside selected economists with their own agenda.

> will be absolutely disastrous and will not only massively spike unemployment, it will lead to far greater prices for American consumers.

He had the lowest unemployment numbers in decades.

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