This is what baffles me the most - the effects of Trumps regime aren’t abstract - no, they are the very opposite, very tangible, to be felt by literally anyone. Like the most obvious thing should be the increase in gas prices, followed by the increase in groceries. Do those people have a) so much money that they simply don’t care or b) don’t have the mental capacity that all of this is directly because of Trump?
And what kinda jobs do those people have that they are not affected by the mass layoffs and hiring freezes?
Anytime something bad happens, they just say it’s because of some policy Biden did. It’s a simple copout that works for them. And if it’s not Bidens’s fault? Then it’s immigrants. Or poor people. Or trans people. Or Muslims… And on and on the cycle goes.
I agree that it’s not rational. I think it depends a lot on selective memory and compartmentalization. A recent comment on a local news story exemplifies this. Somebody claimed that gas prices being down from their post-Iran-attack peak proves (proves!) that Trump was right again. But they ignore several key facts, like prices are still higher than they were before the war, they’re still higher than they were at the end of the Biden presidency, and that the underlying issues exposed by the war have not been resolved and gas prices may still rise.
This is what baffles me the most - the effects of Trumps regime aren’t abstract - no, they are the very opposite, very tangible, to be felt by literally anyone. Like the most obvious thing should be the increase in gas prices, followed by the increase in groceries. Do those people have a) so much money that they simply don’t care or b) don’t have the mental capacity that all of this is directly because of Trump? And what kinda jobs do those people have that they are not affected by the mass layoffs and hiring freezes?
Anytime something bad happens, they just say it’s because of some policy Biden did. It’s a simple copout that works for them. And if it’s not Bidens’s fault? Then it’s immigrants. Or poor people. Or trans people. Or Muslims… And on and on the cycle goes.
I agree that it’s not rational. I think it depends a lot on selective memory and compartmentalization. A recent comment on a local news story exemplifies this. Somebody claimed that gas prices being down from their post-Iran-attack peak proves (proves!) that Trump was right again. But they ignore several key facts, like prices are still higher than they were before the war, they’re still higher than they were at the end of the Biden presidency, and that the underlying issues exposed by the war have not been resolved and gas prices may still rise.
The biggest single lever to reduce gas prices is almost certainly moving to electric.
If MAGA was smart enough to convince 90% of folks to switch, the last holdouts on gasoline would have the whole supply to themselves.
But we’re not dealing with a bunch of stable geniuses here.