After reading a number of analyses purporting to explain why Trump won the election, my only takeaway is that

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11. Not necessarily. For one thing, Fox News et al broadcast an incessant drumbeat that the economy was terrible and it

was the Democrats' fault. For another, while inflation was brought under control more quickly in the US than any other country in the world, prices did rise about 25%. Biden, the Fed, and the Democrats did an amazing job dealing with inflation that had been caused by at the injection of money into the economy to offset the effects of Covid and a major disruption in the distribution system (not to mention price-gouging by greedy companies). But many people felt real effects that they unfairly blamed on the Biden administration. There were, of course, other factors such as race, gender, religion, social policy, and immigration that also played a role, fairly or not.