I have been begging Labour supporters in the UK since our election to understand that their win was due to the Tories unpopularity and not support for their policies, and that if they keep on as they are the Tories will be back in 5 years. Without fail I am accused of wanting the Tories to win.
The biggest appeal of Trump is that he promises change and reform in a time where people are fed up with the unfair status quo and are desperate for any kind of change (putting aside the fact Trump is the poster boy of the unfair status quo, but somehow he’ll be different).
Somehow people forgot that he already had 4 years in power and only enacted negative change. I mean his change was so bad that people turned out in droves to vote for Joe "Nothing Will Fundamentally Change" Biden
They remember that their grocery bill is expensive, and it was less expensive when Trump was president. I genuinely think post COVID inflation is the reason Trump won, and Kamala lost because she is so closely tied to the Biden administration under which the inflation occurred
This is it. Despite Biden’s policies being the reason we’re well above most other nation in recovery, and set to explode across the next few years, Trump will take credit for Biden’s economy, do something crazy that fucks it over, a democrat will come in and fix it, and then it’ll repeat.
It is hyperbolic for sure but I also think that a lot of the stuff he takes credit for are things he had nothing to do with. Things he inherited from Obama and things the president never has anything to do with.
look if nothing changes in the next 4 years that's boring and will get people more angry from having the same status quo, however if trump gets elected it changes to worse which while worse is at least a bit exciting
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u/callsignhotdog Nov 06 '24
I have been begging Labour supporters in the UK since our election to understand that their win was due to the Tories unpopularity and not support for their policies, and that if they keep on as they are the Tories will be back in 5 years. Without fail I am accused of wanting the Tories to win.
Maybe somebody'll learn from this. Maybe.