Comment by ulfw
12 hours ago
But cares about something that has zero effect on them? Trans? How many of them know a single trans person?
Like somehow that's a huge thing for Trump voters but a crashing economy is not?
12 hours ago
But cares about something that has zero effect on them? Trans? How many of them know a single trans person?
Like somehow that's a huge thing for Trump voters but a crashing economy is not?
Lots of people know trans people (by which I mean people that have decided to take some visible action to transition) by now - the people in the boonies and flyover states have access to the same internet as everyone else, so a lot of people outside the most progressive cities have transitioned. You have to remember that trans had been at the front of the culture for 10 years (since Caitlyn Jenner) by the time of the 2024 election.
The stocks didn't really go down yet and their media sources are distraction agents.
Crashing the economy? In the past year the S&P 500 rose 14%, unemployment is at 4.4%, and inflation is around 2.7%. There are many things to criticize Trump for but the economy has not actually crashed.
The S&P 500 rose 1.04% in EUR terms only. That's basically nothing.
Of the 14% in USD terms 13% evaporated because he crashed the dollar compared to all other currencies (EUR, GBP, CHF, AUD, whatever)
Trump ran on an explicit promise to bring down grocery prices on day 1.
Grocery prices have continued to climb.
Absolutely nothing he has done could remotely be said to be aimed at bringing them down.
He has also instituted massive attacks on the power of labor, and on the offices that report on things like the unemployment rate.
"The economy" is not just the stock market; unemployment numbers literally cannot be trusted coming from Trump's BLS; and an inflation of 2.7% is, in fact, fairly high (it's 35% higher than the "target" rate of 2%).