Summary
Donald Trump has shifted focus away from the economy, despite using inflation as a campaign issue.
With Biden presiding over strong job growth, low unemployment, and easing inflation, Trump faces difficulty critiquing the economy.
Democrats aim to capitalize by framing Trump as responsible for economic challenges and advocating for voter-friendly economic priorities.
Historically, disciplined messaging on pocketbook issues has delivered major midterm victories for both parties.
I just can’t care anymore.
It’s actually proven now, it doesn’t matter.
No matter how many stories are run about the awful things he does and the good things he doesn’t do, the people who voted for him will love him just the same.
No matter what he does, no matter how awful, nothing the media prints matters, and our institutions will do nothing to stop him.
We now just have to hope that he and his supporters don’t decide we are done with elections in four years. We exist at their whim.
Edit: And might I add - the “opposition party” just ran an election centered around courting voters from Trump’s party instead of their own, and shows no signs of learning from it. (again) We are well and truly fucked.
sounds like the same thing for Democrats
I never worried that the Democrats will end our democracy, like I’m almost certain your fuhrer will.
Yah Democrats are the version of Republicans that hedges their bet that accountability matters to the public to some degree and acts somewhat accordingly. That bet has proven false. Pure manipulation and lies will define politics for the foreseeable future unless some kind of massive voter backlash occurs in the very near future.
This is lemmy, not reddit. There’s a better than average chance the person you are talking to is a leftist and not a fascist.
I have a hard time watching what democrats do to progressives and concluding that they are interested in democracy. Republicans are obviously worse in the way that they govern but at least in the way they run their primary they may be more democratic. They didn’t stop Trump from winning the nomination. Their voters got exactly what they asked for. I haven’t felt that way about a dem primary in almost 20 years.
am a US dissident unable to cast a vote for either of the two puppets thanks
Democrats and Republicans both my entire life have worked together to make laws and policies that have kept progress at bay
As long as the Dems keep glossing over the worsening K-shaped economy, and talking past the pain that the majority of middle-America is feeling - they’re going to continue to lose the working class to apathy and the GOP.
It doesn’t matter if wages nationally ‘went up” $1b, if it all went to like 3 people, and everyone else’s wages stagnated or went down.
Don’t worry, though. When it turns out that “he, alone, can’t fix it”, he’ll find some other scapegoat. It’s what he does. Nothing bad is ever his fault.
Spoiler alert: it’s going to be immigrants again.
He doesn’t need talk about. He already has an amazing, the most wonderful, most detailed super duper plan. Really the best plan ever made. At least we think that is what Elon told him…hard to understand him with a dick in his mouth. On how to fix literally everything within 30 minutes if being sworn in.
Tough times are coming regardless of who was elected. Look at the global economic fractures that have occurred over the last 5 years and it becomes obvious. Prepare yourselves and good luck.
