The economy wasn’t “doing fine” for more than half the population.
People who think like that are the reason Trump got elected.
the economy ≠ standard of living
The problem was purchasing power, wages, and inflation. People’s standard of living was suffering, but the “economy” wasn’t. Conflating the two is why Trump’s stupid rhetoric resonated so much with the uneducated Magats that voted him in: they thought he was promising to fix their standard of living, while the reality was that he was promising to “fix” something that wasn’t broken.
Actually YOUR way of thinking is why Trump won the election.
The stock market =/= the economy
The reason why Dems lost on the economy, is because they don’t understand this basic fact of reality. Telling people that everything is fine, when they can plainly see that it isn’t, is a losing strategy.
The real economy of paychecks, groceries and rent payments IS broken. And until it gets fixed, we will have people like Trump winning elections. Even if it’s all a lie…they are the only ones acknowledging that anything is wrong.
You’re making a very big leap in assuming I don’t condemn the Democrats and their attempt to convince voters everything is fine.
They’re a party led by geriatric, upper-class rulers. No shit, their doubling down on “the economy is fine” didn’t work—they don’t understand or care to understand what the people want. All they care about is what their corporate donors pay them to care about.
The failings of the Democrat Party don’t absolve rural conservatives and undereducated voters of their part in this, though. The literal definition of economy is the wealth and resources of a country as a whole. The economy was doing fine because we had our lovely billionaires and mega corporations consolidating all the wealth and skewing that number while the average person was under growing financial pressure.
The problem was—and still is—the wealth disparity. We have multimillionaires and billionaires absorbing more and more money from the 99% while paying a pittance back towards helping the people they’re screwing. They get to dodge taxes by reinvesting their profits into assets they own, hoard resources, and act with impunity.
A voter base that took the time to understand what they were asking for would have seen straight through Trump’s sensationalist bullshit, not barreled straight into it. It should have been obvious that he wasn’t going to fix wealth disparity. He associates himself with the billionaires, he sees himself as one of them, and he wants to keep it that way. He doesn’t give a single shit about wealth disparity, let alone ever acknowledge it as the problem. Instead, he won his campaign on vague promises about a word that means something completely different to every Tom, Dick, and Harry that cast their ballot for him.
People who think like that are the reason Trump got elected.
the economy ≠ standard of living
The problem was purchasing power, wages, and inflation. People’s standard of living was suffering, but the “economy” wasn’t. Conflating the two is why Trump’s stupid rhetoric resonated so much with the uneducated Magats that voted him in: they thought he was promising to fix their standard of living, while the reality was that he was promising to “fix” something that wasn’t broken.
Actually YOUR way of thinking is why Trump won the election.
The stock market =/= the economy
The reason why Dems lost on the economy, is because they don’t understand this basic fact of reality. Telling people that everything is fine, when they can plainly see that it isn’t, is a losing strategy.
The real economy of paychecks, groceries and rent payments IS broken. And until it gets fixed, we will have people like Trump winning elections. Even if it’s all a lie…they are the only ones acknowledging that anything is wrong.
You’re making a very big leap in assuming I don’t condemn the Democrats and their attempt to convince voters everything is fine.
They’re a party led by geriatric, upper-class rulers. No shit, their doubling down on “the economy is fine” didn’t work—they don’t understand or care to understand what the people want. All they care about is what their corporate donors pay them to care about.
The failings of the Democrat Party don’t absolve rural conservatives and undereducated voters of their part in this, though. The literal definition of economy is the wealth and resources of a country as a whole. The economy was doing fine because we had our lovely billionaires and mega corporations consolidating all the wealth and skewing that number while the average person was under growing financial pressure.
The problem was—and still is—the wealth disparity. We have multimillionaires and billionaires absorbing more and more money from the 99% while paying a pittance back towards helping the people they’re screwing. They get to dodge taxes by reinvesting their profits into assets they own, hoard resources, and act with impunity.
A voter base that took the time to understand what they were asking for would have seen straight through Trump’s sensationalist bullshit, not barreled straight into it. It should have been obvious that he wasn’t going to fix wealth disparity. He associates himself with the billionaires, he sees himself as one of them, and he wants to keep it that way. He doesn’t give a single shit about wealth disparity, let alone ever acknowledge it as the problem. Instead, he won his campaign on vague promises about a word that means something completely different to every Tom, Dick, and Harry that cast their ballot for him.