Donald Trump beat Kamala Harris because voters who were concerned about the economy did what they often do—punish the incumbent party during the election.
  • orclev@lemmy.world
    641·
    15 days ago

    Because they’re grossly ignorant and still believe the debunked trickle down economics theory that fucking Reagan foisted on us all those years ago. And just like every other time they’ll act shocked when the economy goes even more to shit and find some way to shift blame to literally anyone but the GOP lawmakers that are plundering their wealth.

  • Zak@lemmy.world
    281·
    15 days ago

    Everyone with a reason or responsibility to inform the public about the economy has not been effective enough.

    • Why are eggs expensive? There has been an ongoing bird flu outbreak for the past four years. Government policy might be able to mitigate the impact some, but the virus does not care who is president.
    • Why is rent expensive? Not enough housing, mostly, with a bit of facilitated collusion thrown in. The president has little to do with the former; if anything, Trump is more likely to tolerate the latter.
    • Why is gas expensive? A president does have a big role here, but it’s Putin, not Biden or Trump. It’s also not up a whole lot from 5-6 years ago.
    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
      4·
      15 days ago

      Our domestic oil production is higher under Biden than Trump and we’re a net exporter. What the fuck else would we do?

      Lina Khan, best FTC chair in a generation, was also in the process of cracking down on algorithmic price fixing for rentals and other deceptive practices.

    • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      15 days ago

      For the last point about gas, trump will be happy to give ukraine to russia and impiort the cheap russian gas.

      He could also pull out of nato and save lot of money that he could then spend on subsidising fatmers.

      also cutting funds to agencies like FDA and social programs allow him to move these funds elsewhere

      the TLDR trump will probably be able to “improve the economy” but at expense of significantly weakening the country

  • EmpireInDecay@lemmy.mlEnglish
    102·
    15 days ago

    Telling us we were not struggling and everything is fine when we can see that’s a lie didn’t help.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      Unfortunately, yes. They think the person in the WH sets the prices of eggs.

      I’d love to see some Jordan Klepper type of interviews of these people asking some follow-up questions about what they believe the mechanisms are…