Ya know what bugs me about the claim that it was all about the economy?

[Akakoji]

27. A brilliant, short piece about what voters were thinking

It was all the economy. The fact that immigrants, people of color, and women that somehow threatened the fragile male financially battered ego were "othered" or blamed for economic distress caused by corporate profiteering are actually incidental. That's not to say that Americans are not stubbornly, and intentionally racist and misogynist. It's just that under stress - a lot of it was about housing as well - Americans want to blame. And they want revenge, or at least someone to pay for their pain. And just to add a salient point to the discussion, poor white people have existed for as long as this country try has been around. As have Latinos, and Asians, and Blacks, etc. People are brainwashed into thinking that what the oligarchs that control the media were saying was why they were suffering. The Biden/Harris economic policies - not corporate price gouging. Yes, they actually believe that somehow prices will return to normal, or at least the prices that exited during the first Trump presidency. That will not happen. In fact, it's going to get very, very bad financially for even more people. Lots of those idiots that voted for Republicans. Unfortunately, even worse for Black women.

Anyway, the article: https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/11/09/frustrated-americans-await-the-economic-changes-they-voted-for-with-trump/