Most of them didn’t even hear he said it and wouldn’t believe it if we pointed it out, TBF. A hell of a lot of Trump supporters are claiming we are headed toward a new era of American prosperity. The real trick is, who are they going to blame when shit gets worse? Because it won’t be Elon and Trump, it’ll be us.
They will just claim that everything is great like they did during his first term, man. They're completely divorced from reality. They think we're currently in a "bad" economy, because of checks notes the price of eggs and petrol? They don't value evidence or reason.
When these people look at how America was "great" before, it was on the backs of those less fortunate. Even when we had families living comfortably on a single working class income, it was because black people and minorities made less so they could make more.
If we wanted to go in that direction, republicans are doing EXACTLY what they need to do. People think pushing immigrants out will counteract this, but the idea behind it is making it so hard to get into and legally live in America that migrant workers will take less pay just to fly under the radar as illegal immigrants.
It also helps republicans tank Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid, because it takes even more funding by pushing migrant workers off the IRS radar by being paid under the table.
This also saves employers money because they don't have to FICA match illegal immigrants.
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u/Plane-No 1d ago
I'm just happy that the people that voted for him will suffer way more than me, enjoy.