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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never felt like she had it in the bag, but I will admit that I’m quite surprised that Trump won by this margin. I thought it would be close. While it’s no shocker that she lost, I will never be able to understand how so many people could vote for someone as ill suited for the job as Trump, especially when they’ve had the last 8 years to get to know him. What made Trump more palatable than the other Republican candidates who ran? That’s the thing I can’t grasp.

Why is the American electorate so fickle? They were lukewarm on Trump in 2016, turned off by his performance as president in 2020, he’s done nothing to become more appealing since then, and now they give him a mandate? He has never produced any credible plans to solve any of the issues he runs on. He admitted he has a concept of a plan…4 years after serving a 4 year term as president, during which he repeatedly said he was just weeks away from unveiling the most beautiful plan. We’re about to have another octogenarian at the helm. Trump talks about absurd nonsense. He gets confused easily. He’s having speech issues. He’s been complaining at rallies that he’s tired. Remember when those types of issues made people concerned about Biden’s presidency? But let’s embrace Trump’s decline![/quote]

It's baffling. He's does what he does best, cons people. Lots believe the election was stolen in 2020. A wealthy guy (largely inherited from daddy) from New York has duped the working class Joe from Ohio that he cares about their struggles. Hilarious.[/quote]

It's only baffling to out of touch morons like you. Thinking like this is why she lost so bad, keep it up, it's nice watching you whiny little babies self-destruct.[/quote][/quote]

What exactly did Trump do for the middle class during his last term? He inherited the stable economy from Obama. He locked migrant kids in cages, but I don't think that made life for the middle class easier. He mishandled the pandemic by not taking action soon enough and arguing with health officials. He gave out unemployment and stimulus checks, but they obviously contributed to the state the economy is currently in, aka "Biden's" inflation. You keep calling Dems out of touch but the Republicans are merely pretending to be in touch. High tariffs on foreign goods will not lower housing and grocery prices. You do know the VP elect insulted the working class in his book right? Trump doesn't care about you. He cares about his fragile ego and probably wants to be able to pardon himself.[/quote]

--Kids in cages? Obama did it first, but the media/leftists didn't care until big bad orange man did it.
--Pandemic: Trump immediately tried to close the borders to China, from whence the virus originated, and was called a racist xenophobic blah blah blah. Democratic leaders in NY and San Francisco went out of their way to encourage people to congregate and attend Chinese events as a middle finger to the big bad orange man. I clearly remember this - do you? Were you even aware? Trump, as you well know, pushed Operation Warp Speed to develop the covid vaccine. The rest? It was literally an unprecedented situation and therefore it's impossible to (accurately) say a Democratic president would've handled it better. 
--Stimmies: Yes, the Trump checks contributed to inflation. But the "Inflation Reduction Act" (ha - even Biden admitted it wasn't really about reducing inflation) and American Rescue Plan Act were hugely inflationary. Further, the Biden admin insisted that inflation was transitory when it decidedly was not. It then trumpeted the decreasing RATE of inflation without acknowledging that prices were (and are) still inflated.
--Tariffs: Admittedly, I am concerned about the near-term effects of tariffs on the working class's wallets. However, the reasoning behind them is SO important: Trump wants to encourage, whether with a carrot or with a stick, companies to manufacture in America again. Reshore jobs! Buy American! I fully support this ambition. I sincerely hope for progress on this front.
--I read Hillbilly Elegy. Did you? I am from a working class family and grew up in a working class area. I didn't find Hillbilly Elegy to be insulting to the working class. I found it to be largely accurate of my own experience. Just because certain parts of it may be unflattering, doesn't mean it's insulting. This is a big issue with the left of calling facts they don't like "racist" or "hate speech". The truth isn't always pretty.[/quote]

OP of the post you responded to. Cant blame this one on Dems. Trump definitely mismanaged the pandemic. If he handled it well, he'd have been reelected. He ignored advice from officials and shown disdain for things like masking. No proof that these gatherings you mentioned spearheaded anything.

Ok, but Fox News refers to this as Biden’s inflation and his alone.

Someone said his merchandise is made in China already, and I think consumers say they will pay more for American made goods, but in reality...   If rising prices are a concern, increasing tariffs on foreign goods seems counterproductive.

No, and don't plan to. Eh, maybe for shits and giggles. Fair, but I feel that leeway has been given because if a Dem wrote this you would see it as condescending.[/quote]

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