Data published Friday shows that U.S. consumer sentiment cratered in early March to its lowest level since late 2022 as President Donald Trump's erratic tariff policies and assault on the federal government—the nation's largest employer—spurred far-reaching economic chaos.The University of Michigan'...
  • credo@lemmy.world
    2111·
    19 hours ago

    Or… now hear me out… we let America get exactly what it voted for. Democrats can’t keep bailing out the republicans.

      • credo@lemmy.world
        82·
        11 hours ago

        It’s a principled take. There are plenty of articles showing it’s Trump’s base that’s receiving a significant portion of injury from his orders and policies. Unless they feel the pain — without democratic intervention to cast blame — these people will never change their minds. They may not in any event, but it has to affect them. It’s either these hard lessons, or we keep spiraling to civil war.

        Learn from history.

        The privileged voters tried to save trump’s base from itself, but what do they know:

        https://www.ft.com/content/6de668c7-64e9-4196-b2c5-9ceca966fe3f

        The results also show poorer and less-educated voters now think Republicans best represent them — a reversal from 12 years ago, when Democrat Barack Obama was president. After a deep-dive into the data, here are five takeaways. Democratic support depends on high-income voters Economic realignment has been under way for some time, but hastened in this election. The Democratic party now appears to be the party of high-income voters, not those with low incomes.

        • Tja@programming.dev
          2·
          2 hours ago

          If you think democrats won’t be blamed, you haven’t been paying attention.

          It doesn’t need to be true, it doesn’t need to be in the same postal code of truth, it just needs to be repeated 24/7 on fox News.