NYT: Oh noes we can’t figure out Trump voters! They’re a goddamned enigma! Let’s write allllllll about it without saying a fucking thing people don’t already know absolutely!
It’s Paul Krugman. Whenever people are discussing economics and there’s a mismatch like this, he’s going to weigh in.
No, they certainly won’t.
Many Democrats will flip and vote Republican over this economy. They’re paying massively inflated prices for gasoline and groceries, their rent has skyrocketed, and they’re having to work multiple jobs to survive.
Meanwhile the issue taking up time in Washington is finding a way to shovel more money into foreign wars that aren’t even ours.
Those chickens are going to come home to roost.
People were seeing those same stresses beforehand…and Democratic voters aren’t complaining about the economy. Almost like Krugman is correct about the idea that the complaints are due to partisanship.
People were seeing those same stresses beforehand.
Uh huh, and we elected Biden on the promise to change it. Three years later, it’s worsened, and voters likely will hold Biden accountable for that.
It’s not partisanship. It’s that people are struggling.
Funny how Democrats aren’t saying that:
And Republicans are:
Now, the world isn’t some perfect place, and there are people with very real struggles, but there’s a very clear partisan bias when you ask people this kind of question, and one that’s appeared in recent years.
There will always be a partisan bias on every issue.
The point is that you shouldn’t ignore the reality of how shitty this economy is for the people whose votes you want, and Dems seem perfectly content do that.
I don’t think they’re ignoring it at all; witness things like extending employee benefits to a lot of gig workers. It’s that they’ll never get credit for improving peoples lives no matter what they do.
It’s still legal to pay someone seven bucks an hour in nearly half of the US states.
It’s not insignificant that all our Federal Government does is broker and profit off wars.
Changing that requires a 60/100 supermajority in the Senate. The Democrats haven’t had that in a long time.
Are we looking at the same charts? Only one of them has an noticeable bias, and it’s bonkers extreme: almost 80% negative right up until a Republican is sworn in, then almost immediately skyrockets to nearly 100% positive, brief dip for Covid before going right back up, then immediately down to almost 100% negative immediately after a Democrat is sworn in. The economy doesn’t shift like that, that didn’t correspond to any actual economic metric. That sentiment is entirely based on bias.
Compare with the other chart: much more moderate, much more gradual, much more correlated to data. You can’t tell exactly when the president changed by looking at it, which makes sense because the economy doesn’t swing like that.
Yes, there’s always a partisan bias on every by issue, and that bias is overwhelmingly exhibited by one side.
