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The president doesn't have magical knobs that will lower the prices of eggs or fuel.
We are still feeling the effects of post-Covid economy, materials and products got expensive and most never came back down. The president can't do anything about that unless they are going to interfere with the free market. Really ignorant of people to vote for Trump on that basis.
They actually do... Or at least, the government as a whole does. If you look back at the great depression, WW2 and its aftermath, and the radical actions that the US government took to solve the cost of living crisis then, you can see that it absolutely is possible.
Would it have been possible for Biden in 2020? Technically, yes. The Dems held two branches, and with an end to the filibuster rule and court packing they could theoretically have secured control in the third. A razor thin margin in the senate would have required some very clever, and possibly very ruthless backroom dealing to get things done. But the possibility did, technically, exist.
Buying into the narrative that radical solutions are impossible is exactly why people are sick of the Democrats. Yes, obviously Trump will only make things worse, but the average person doesn't see that. They only see that they tried handing the keys to the Dems, things only got worse, so now they're going to try handing the keys to the other guys.
It's simple, really. We liked the way things were four years ago
You can't fix stupid.
Possibly their ballots were faked? Could we all get a look see? I just want to make sure my ballot looks exactly as I voted.
Or maybe Latinos are fucking retarded? Pinches huercos jijos de su reputa Bomba Madre. Como cabrones se les biene a votar por la pinche bolsa de miados Trump???? But I digress.
"beset on all sides, with idiots"
Exactly how Hitler got in.
There's going to be a lot of extremely obese leopards around, with all the faces they will be eating.
This is where we were 4 years ago.
Really surprised the article didn't mention Gaza or genocide.
I'm not. With the exception of the terminally online left or people with familial or cultural ties to Palestine, it's at best a back burner issue. It certainly impacted her vote share in certain areas, but that's not why the whole country turned to the right. She didn't lose NC, GA, NV, and AZ because of Gaza. She lost because of the economy and immigration. Those of us who spend a large portion of our days/weeks glued to these threads forget that we tend to blow certain things far out of proportion compared to how the average American sees it. We think our pet issues are the pet issues of the electorate, and they're simply not, no matter how much moralizing and finger wagging we do.
The whole country didn't turn to the right. Trump got fewer votes than in 2020. The problem is fhe left didn't turn out. Kamala got 13M fewer votes than Biden. 🤷♂️
Yes, it did. The evidence is widespread. Across multiple sources.
It happened in unexpected demographics and in unexpected regions.
It's important to note that he's at 72.6 million votes, and counting. We can't say he "got" more or fewer votes than in 2020 because they're still tallying ballots. He's getting more every hour. (edit: According to AP, he's gained ~100k votes since I first wrote this comment an hour ago.)
Scapegoat identified. No way it could have been the dems alienating their base with less progressive politics in a failed attempt to pull republicans over to Harris.