Trump says he is going to “make America affordable again.” It’s a pledge he made frequently during the campaign. And now, after dropping it from his lexicon for more than eight months, he’s saying it again as polls show voters rank the economy and cost of living as their top concern and blame Trump’s policies for making things worse.
Thus far, Trump has spent far more time boasting about how great the economy and stock market are doing than acknowledging any economic anxiety.
The myth stands because the economy usually takes 2 to 4 years to catch up after major political changes.
That was apparent under Biden as well as Obama. Hell, Obama inherited the whole 2007-2008 crash, and pulled the US out of it like no other county managed. Compared to W who literally got the singular most nation-uniting event dropped on his lap, and fucked it up so much that the US suffered the most from the dot-com crash…
Donnie inherited Obama’s good economy and within two years there were clear signs of him fucking shit up so bad… But people blamed Biden for it, because he inherited most of the shit, and only in the last year of his presidency did things begin to visibly improve.
And don’t forget, most people are morons and incredibly easy to mislead. Just how many denounce Biden’s response to COVID when it was the orange shitsack who was President for most of it? And that’s only been 5 years ago. You seriously expect the same idiots to remember the past 20-30-40 years? Or have enough reasoning skills to look at collated data going back a hundred years showing how policies affected the economy (specifically the economy the average people experiencing, not talking about the Fortune 500 doing well or some other crap metric)?