They thought abusing brown people would magically fix all the things they told were bad like universal healthcare, feeding children, and safety regulations.
They actually thought things would be cheaper with tariffs because Trump said so. They are hateful morons.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it wasn’t just about racism. Sure there are Republicans that are racist but there’s still a good percentage of Liberals that are racist too. I think the facts of the matter do indeed matter, and unfortunately that comes with a plethora of misinformation and campaigns designed to target underprivileged voters. Low literacy rates will also exacerbate the divide. I’m so tired of this tirade that because “XYZ” people can’t be treated with human decency. I still believe Republicans deserve a good life, as well as immigrants, poor people, and Democrats. Thats literally the point of leftism is to practise distribution of goods on a need basis instead of on merit.
A lot of them saw the Biden “I did that” stickers blaming him for fuel prices at gas stations, and they believed it.
They saw Trump on Fox News saying that other countries would eat the cost of tariffs because they would rather lose profit than our business, and they believed it.
They didn’t see Biden investigate grocers and deny mergers, they didn’t see him using the US petro reserves to stabilize prices, they didn’t see him pass the many great things on affordability in the Inflation Reduction Act, they didn’t see him push affordable alternatives to power and fuel like solar and EVs, they didn’t see him allow new drilling sites despite pushback, they didn’t see it because whenever it was put in their faces they chose not to see it.
After Covid the recovery was K shaped. So the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Trump was hammering out covid benefits, which actually helped a lot of people and before that the economy was doing well. A good bit of that was that Obama left it that way and the Republicans were divided enough to stop Trump from being as bad as he is today.
So a lot of them just looked back and saw that they did better under Trump then Biden and voted for Trump.
(Biden tried to do industrial policy, but that takes time, was delayed and money was spend baldy due to corruption. However the general plan was decent.)
Trump promised to lower prices. A complaint after he is in office about rising prices should make it very obvious what those people thought they were voting for.
I’d be curious to find out what all of these “this is not what I voted for” people thought they were actually voting for and why they thought that
They thought abusing brown people would magically fix all the things they told were bad like universal healthcare, feeding children, and safety regulations.
They actually thought things would be cheaper with tariffs because Trump said so. They are hateful morons.
They are not even thinking that deep. They just think handing assholes with power even more power is how to create more prosperity.
They were voting for racism
I’m going to go out on a limb here and say it wasn’t just about racism. Sure there are Republicans that are racist but there’s still a good percentage of Liberals that are racist too. I think the facts of the matter do indeed matter, and unfortunately that comes with a plethora of misinformation and campaigns designed to target underprivileged voters. Low literacy rates will also exacerbate the divide. I’m so tired of this tirade that because “XYZ” people can’t be treated with human decency. I still believe Republicans deserve a good life, as well as immigrants, poor people, and Democrats. Thats literally the point of leftism is to practise distribution of goods on a need basis instead of on merit.
This isn’t 2016 anymore. These people voted for him a 3rd time well after he made it very clear what he stood for. Racism is his defining feature.
Getting rid of brown people
Same reason brexit won too right?
It wasn’t supposed to hurt them, just other people.
They voted for things getting cheaper. And not believing that politicians can just make shit up and getting away with it
This^
A lot of them saw the Biden “I did that” stickers blaming him for fuel prices at gas stations, and they believed it.
They saw Trump on Fox News saying that other countries would eat the cost of tariffs because they would rather lose profit than our business, and they believed it.
They didn’t see Biden investigate grocers and deny mergers, they didn’t see him using the US petro reserves to stabilize prices, they didn’t see him pass the many great things on affordability in the Inflation Reduction Act, they didn’t see him push affordable alternatives to power and fuel like solar and EVs, they didn’t see him allow new drilling sites despite pushback, they didn’t see it because whenever it was put in their faces they chose not to see it.
After Covid the recovery was K shaped. So the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Trump was hammering out covid benefits, which actually helped a lot of people and before that the economy was doing well. A good bit of that was that Obama left it that way and the Republicans were divided enough to stop Trump from being as bad as he is today.
So a lot of them just looked back and saw that they did better under Trump then Biden and voted for Trump.
(Biden tried to do industrial policy, but that takes time, was delayed and money was spend baldy due to corruption. However the general plan was decent.)
America. And America.
Trump promised to lower prices. A complaint after he is in office about rising prices should make it very obvious what those people thought they were voting for.