Comment by 2OEH8eoCRo0

1 day ago

That's definitely why Trump is -27 net approval.

That's just buyers remorse. He told us how he intended to govern. His opponent told us how he intended to govern. The voters were not mislead.

(and his approval would be the same mid 40s it always was if gas prices were reasonable)

  • He’s never achieved a majority vote in any election, FWIW. His claim of a mandate was just as brazen as all the other litany of lies - he’s a lame duck lame duck. The true shame is on the congressional republicans for letting him sully them so deeply and follow him in his self immolation of the entire government and America in the world. The rebuilding will be a major test of the successor, and it’ll be fascinating to see if the Goldwater republicans can become the party of reason again rather than this reality TV idiocracy.

  • Americans aren't angry because Trump was wrong, they're angry because it's not working.

It’s not. It’s because he took inflation to the Moon. If he hadn’t had Hegseth at his side, and hadn’t gone into Iran, he’d probably still be treading water.

  • Covid spending took inflation to the moon. Just as economic theory predicts.

    • > Covid spending took inflation to the moon

      Yes. Then the party that did that got trounced. Then nobody learned any lessons.

    • You know what was even worse for prices? 100% tariffs and blowing up the fuel supply. The government has just chosen to lie about inflation.

  • Inflation under Trump is half that of when Biden was in. https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/article/inflation-u...

    • It wasn’t solely Biden that created that spike. Trump passed the CARES act that minted close to 3 trillion in his final year of his first term. Biden passed a trillion dollar bill too. I don’t blame them since it was to combat covid. I’m not jumping for joy because it’s half, I’m mad because it’s ticking back up.

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    • > Inflation under Trump is half that of when Biden was in

      And how did that work out for Biden?

      Voters don’t like inflation. Blowing up energy prices by launching a war of choice while shutting down domestic production because windmills isn’t smart policy.

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    • Actual or stated? The article lists a lot of things whose prices went up more under Trump 2 than Biden - regardless of what CPI data from the Trump government says.

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And won via a plurality after losing the popular vote in the last election. The least popular president in history can’t win a majority of popular vote. It’s not shocking he’s deeply unpopular, he never was popular. He’s a won twice on a technicality of the republic created to ensure the rural states wouldn’t be dominated by Virginia in the original establishment of the union.

He’s a pariah everywhere on earth, most especially at home. The sad part is the democrats couldn’t mount a successful campaign against someone so unfit to lead. Now there’s nothing left to do but clean up the mess and undo the terrible harm he has caused and repair what can be once he’s finally out of our hair.