Summary
“It’s simple, really. We liked the way things were four years ago,” said Samuel Negron, a Pennsylvania state constable and member of the large Puerto Rican community in the city of Allentown.
Donald Trump achieved a decisive victory over Kamala Harris, capturing key demographics that traditionally supported Democrats. He gained substantial support from white working-class voters, saw a 14-point increase among Latino voters, and performed better than expected with younger voters, especially men.
Economic concerns, particularly inflation, were central to Trump’s appeal, with voters across states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin favoring his promises of lower prices and stricter immigration policies.
Harris struggled to retain support in diverse and working-class areas, as voters blamed Democrats for economic hardships.
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The president doesn’t have magical knobs that will lower the prices of eggs or fuel.
We are still feeling the effects of post-Covid economy, materials and products got expensive and most never came back down. The president can’t do anything about that unless they are going to interfere with the free market. Really ignorant of people to vote for Trump on that basis.
They actually do… Or at least, the government as a whole does. If you look back at the great depression, WW2 and its aftermath, and the radical actions that the US government took to solve the cost of living crisis then, you can see that it absolutely is possible.
Would it have been possible for Biden in 2020? Technically, yes. The Dems held two branches, and with an end to the filibuster rule and court packing they could theoretically have secured control in the third. A razor thin margin in the senate would have required some very clever, and possibly very ruthless backroom dealing to get things done. But the possibility did, technically, exist.
Buying into the narrative that radical solutions are impossible is exactly why people are sick of the Democrats. Yes, obviously Trump will only make things worse, but the average person doesn’t see that. They only see that they tried handing the keys to the Dems, things only got worse, so now they’re going to try handing the keys to the other guys.
And if they actually took the time to look into WHY anything was happening that they didn’t like or enjoy, they would have eventually found some answers somewhere.
Dude, we have a WHOLE entire “team” of ReDUMBlicans who will bitch and whine that anything good that is offered by Democrats IMMEDIATELY gets shut down or must make changes to include something stupid, just so they can get their grubby little fingers into it. OR try to sue for it, which just clutters up our court system.
The president, at least a Democrat one, CAN NOT just do whatever the fuck they want to do, for those exact reasons.
We liked the way things were four years ago,
Apparently I am the one who has been living in an alternative reality for the past eight years.
All the headlines today are about how the democrats screwed up. What I have not seen discussed is how in the everlivingingfuck any person could possibly vote for Trump. There was nothing good about his presidency. By all measures, he was one of the worst presidents in American history (while Biden was one of the best in modern times).
We all, myself included, need an education about what the president does and how they can impact kitchen table economics. I mean, I find it hard to grasp that people would vote for Trump just because the cost of bread is up while ignoring the pages of lies, indictments, convictions, rapes, bankruptcies, coup attempts, impeachments, not to mention hate speech. I hope people still don’t have the belief that the US president has any substantial impact on gas prices. The economic efforts of the Biden administration have fixed everything that Trump screwed up.
I still don’t think people know what inflation is. And while we all have the world’s information in our pockets, no-one cares enough to look it up. Inflation goes up because the demand for goods is higher than the supply - meaning either we were buying too much crap and/or there were environmental variables decreasing supply. Inflation happened because of the government stimulus checks, supply chain issues, and disease spread across livestock - it’s a feature, not a bug. I get that all they care about is their grocery store bill but a basic understanding of economic policy would go a really long way. The Democratic policies, past and proposed, put consumer (and livestock) protections in place to prevent or minimize price gouging and monopolies and supply chain disruptions. The Republicans fight these bills because it would cut profits for corporations. Voting for a Republican is a vote for less regulation - it’s the regulations that keep prices down. Unfortunately, government moves slow AF so a lot of times these regulations don’t have an impact until the next president’s term.
By all accounts, Trump is going to drain our wallets. I am terrified. I haven’t had a raise in over ten years. I don’t really have a skill set that can transfer well to other companies. I’m a renter with an amazing landlord (relatively cheap rent) but I was hoping to buy a house sometime in my lifetime. What Trump has proposed is going to substantially raise the prices of good and services. The Republican agenda is to strip the country of public services and make them private enterprises - raising the cost of living for everyone. I really don’t know what I’m going to do for the next four years.
It’s not the faulty of Democrats. It’s the fault of the media and capitalism. It’s the fault of crumbling journalism as people choose hot take emotional rage bait over educating themselves to understand why we are where we are. It’s the fault of the DNC and RNC being too powerful and their fight against reasonable elections such as RCV or STAR voting. It’s the fault of corporations controlling congress. The conspiracy that no one wants to acknowledge is that we’re moving towards a country that is privately owned by a handful of billionaires.
People are tired of corporate stooge politicians. Trump only cares about himself even more than he cares about his donors. This makes him look unique and populist. Folks like Kamala are straightforward and honest about advocating for policies their corporate and dark money pac contributors support
The problem I have is that Trump’s entire agenda to make Americans poorer and corporations richer is right out there in the open. He’s going to dismantle the federal agencies, make the states do it themselves, or make them into corporate enterprise. At the same time, he’s increasing the costs of imports from China. There’s no way this ends well for Americans’ wallets.
Could you tell me one or two of these policies Harris’ contributors support?
Status quo
The conspiracy that no one wants to acknowledge is that we’re moving towards a country that is privately owned by a handful of billionaires.
We’re already there. Their prized pig already swindled the uneducated voters, and their “brave opposition” fulfilled their role by constantly seeking failure. The U.S. was sold in 2010. It’s been owned for so long that the masks can start coming off now.
The Republican agenda is to strip the country of public services and make them private enterprises
Feedback from an European country : everything privatised in the last 15 years became more expensive for a worse quality of service. Belgian electricity market, phone, France electricity, etc …
That’s what always happens. Profit motive ruins nearly everything.
thing with the us is no one seems to remember things even a few years back and when you privatize, if done in the proper robber baron way the us does it, you gut the infrastructure value such that early on it can be cheaper as the private sector does not bother to invest into it but run it into the ground and then when its gone to the point they have to repair it the prices skyrocket.
Don’t forget the simple greed from the corps.
This right here…
The left is desperately trying to hijack the narrative and steer blame away from themselves.
Like it matters, this is like being proud of wearing subscreen after you launched a nuke on yourself.
“Why haven’t we ever had a serious left-wing in this country?” “I mean, because obviously the left are absolute fucking morons.”
4 years ago…in the height of COVID?
You know you won’t be given a phone call or sent a new driver’s license or something when we’ve entered idiocracy. You’ll just wake up one day and be in it. And that one day was about two days ago.
Welcome to Costco, I love you.
All of this is stressing me out… i’m going to Starbucks.
Relax, ICE may empty their facilities, bit life will go on as normal. The rule of law will prevail.
lol as Trumps court cases are dismissed
The rule of law is basically nonexistent
That’s why every bank has been robbed , chaos in the streets, oh the humanity lol ok sure
Remember, idiots like Cuttlefish will be pointing at the front door of the house right now and saying “everything looks fine, assholes!”.
They’ll do that to purposefully ignore the fact that actual transition isn’t until late January. Furthermore, these people won’t kick down the front door this time. They are going to be behind the house, filling the crawlspace with fertilizer and gasoline. While they are doing that, they’ll count on Cuttlefish, among an army of useless dipshits, to claim “incredulous!!! All is well” to try to distract you into doubt. While you’re fully preoccupied, they’ll kick in the BACK door. And light a match. And what cuttlefish is just too god damn stupid and frightened to know right now is that while he’s looking out the front window, laughing as neighbor’s houses burn as they are dragged into the street and shot, he’ll hear the sound of his own back door being kicked in.
Make no mistake though. We’re all fucked, our kids, grandkids and their kids are also fucked. Cuttlefish is also fucked, they are just, again, too stupid to realize it yet. But know that anything you are telling yourself right now, focusing on how it can’t get THAT bad, that’s what you’d naturally tell yourself for comfort. That’s fine, its human, but it’s not true. The end isn’t a cliff’s edge, it’s an increasingly steep hill descending into a mass grave.
We are well and truly fucked, American democracy has failed. Past tense. The laws aren’t real, the courts aren’t real, there is no effective policing between the three branches. It is over. That’s hard to hear, to fully internalize, and it’s true.
Keep an eye on the news, its version of cuttlefish’s cowardly compliance will be the old “is trump being presidential?” narrative. Remember, he’s only the dipshit at the front door dancing to distract you, the actual trouble is happening quietly, and at the foundation of your home right now.
When you demean me in your opening line it is an automatic fail
Remember, idiots like Cuttlefish will be pointing at the front door of the house right now and saying “everything looks fine, assholes!”.
They’ll do that to purposefully ignore the fact that actual transition isn’t until late January. Furthermore, these people won’t kick down the front door this time. They are going to be behind the house, filling the crawlspace with fertilizer and gasoline. While they are doing that, they’ll count on Cuttlefish, among an army of useless dipshit, to claim “incredulous!!! All is well” to try to distract you into doubt. While you’re fully preoccupied, they’ll kick in the BACK door. And light a match.
Make no mistake though. We’re all fucked, our kids, grandkids and their kids are also fucked. Cuttlefish is also fucked, they are just too stupid to realize it yet. But know that anything you are telling yourself right now, focusing on how it can’t get THAT bad, that’s what you’d naturally tell yourself for comfort. That’s fine, its human, but it’s not true.
We are well and truly fucked, American democracy has failed. The laws aren’t real, the courts aren’t real, there is no effective policing between the three branches. It is over. That’s hard and it’s true.
Keep an eye on the news, its version of cuttlefish’s cowardly compliance will be the old “is trump being presidential?” narrative. Remember, he’s only the dipshit at the front door, the actual trouble is happening quietly, and at the foundation of your home right now.
Cuttlefish, there’s a poem commonly called “first they came for…” it’s short, go memorize it, say it over and over in your head to distract while you’re watching them rape your sister in a camp. And then they turn to you, with guns pointed, say you’re gay and they’ll shoot you in the head if you don’t take your turn with your sister next.
I could really use an adult latte right about now.
Idiocracy would be an upgrade, it has a president who listened to people smarter than himself.
But he wasn’t the first president along their path of decline, right? He’s the dude that was left with the pending shortage of burrito fixings and finally had to get serious about shit.
Also maybe Commacho is the archetype for what a democratic nominee will have to devolve into to finally be “heard” by the broken weirdo populous that use politics as a sport and life identity.
Go read all the headlines about “dems don’t know how to communicate with large parts of America” - that statement doesn’t mean they said “you all” when they should have said “y’all”… It means that J.D. Pritzker has to start wearing a hot dog costume, legally change his name to “$HITcago DOG” go around the country for the next four years holding rallies where he farts the national anthem, gives everyone who attends a FULL SIZE Snickers bar and humps a blow up doll with marge taylor greene’s face taped to it. Along the way, he’ll gently sprinkle in messaging, but all of this will also involve just so many compromised principles in a continuing Overton window shift, where the platform devolves to “don’t be a dick sometimes, asshole”. There’s your bumper sticker.
I mean, Camacho was also black, so definitely not a Republican president.
I can’t believe you like money too. We should hang out.
Too many ignorant dumbasses that can’t understand the concept of delayed effects. The upturn in the economy during Trump’s last time in office was a delayed effect of Obama’s administration. The shit we’re in now is because of Trump’s. This shit has happened every single time a Republican has been in office during my life. They fuck everything up, but the effects aren’t seen until they’re gone.
yep, economy is like cold molasses.
The presidents effect on the economy only really starts to come about in their 3rd and 4th year. the first year or two is just carry over, good or bad, from the previous admin.
But that takes thinking… and if theres one thinks Americans hate more than eachother, its having to hurt themselves by using the weird thinky head hurty meats.
Really surprised the article didn’t mention Gaza or genocide.
I’m not. With the exception of the terminally online left or people with familial or cultural ties to Palestine, it’s at best a back burner issue. It certainly impacted her vote share in certain areas, but that’s not why the whole country turned to the right. She didn’t lose NC, GA, NV, and AZ because of Gaza. She lost because of the economy and immigration. Those of us who spend a large portion of our days/weeks glued to these threads forget that we tend to blow certain things far out of proportion compared to how the average American sees it. We think our pet issues are the pet issues of the electorate, and they’re simply not, no matter how much moralizing and finger wagging we do.
For the record, I wasn’t really surprised either.
The whole country didn’t turn to the right. Trump got fewer votes than in 2020. The problem is fhe left didn’t turn out. Kamala got 13M fewer votes than Biden. 🤷♂️
Yes, it did. The evidence is widespread. Across multiple sources.
It happened in unexpected demographics and in unexpected regions.
It’s important to note that he’s at 72.6 million votes, and counting. We can’t say he “got” more or fewer votes than in 2020 because they’re still tallying ballots. He’s getting more every hour. (edit: According to AP, he’s gained ~100k votes since I first wrote this comment an hour ago.)
You are citing a shift based on these results. I am saying people didn’t turn out for Harris. 🤷♂️ That will clearly cause a shift in the results.
Let me know when Trump matches his 2020 support, which even if he did is still a loss given population growth.
Turnout went up in Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, and North Carolina, yet Trump flipped or increased the margins in all four. Turnout in PA appears to have dropped only a little, but Trump’s 2024 margin is 60% higher than Biden’s 2020 margin. Even in swing states it appears the red shift was consistent across all areas and significantly higher than any perceived turnout change. Where we see turnout significantly down is in blue states, which are kinda beside the point. Plus there are over 7 million uncounted votes in California alone.
The whole country turned to the right.
Scapegoat identified. No way it could have been the dems alienating their base with less progressive politics in a failed attempt to pull republicans over to Harris.
oh yeah. trump winning was way more the dems fault than the republicans /s
Against Trump, it was the dems to lose, which they did in historical fashion. They’re so quick to blame leftists, or hispanics, or muslims, yet refuse to admit that their shitty policies brought this about.
Actually I found in most contests its the winners to win. Fact is trump had a better platform and a better strategy and the dems need to be more like him to win. that way rather than trump light being hyperbole they really need to do it.
In some competitions, the lead of one competitor is obvious, and they lose because they screw up. It should not have been difficult for the party already in power, with a former prosecutor and career politician, to defeat the former gameshow host with 34 felony convictions.
Harris tried to appease the moderate republicans to try and pull from their pool, but alienated her supporters in doing so.
This type of competition does not work that way. People had their chance and they overwelming through action or inaction wanted trump. Heck he won the popular vote. This is what americans want and if democrats want to win they need to follow the policies that the american people choose to have when elections happen. Now folks like me we are clearly not eh majority. Folks that want a capitalist system but massively regulated and collecting more taxes the more individuals and companies have such that they can’t become monopolies or to big to fail. I obviously saw which side was closer to what I wanted and other folks I can only assume went whith the side that was closer to what they wanted.
Of course it can work that way, we just saw it happen on Tuesday. Look at all the votes the dems lost between elections. All those protests, all the people demanding an end to the genocide in Gaza, all those people asking about cheaper rent and healthcare, those people asking about why there’s still kids in cages at the border. Inaction, regardless of the outcome, does not equal support for the victor. But sure, let’s homogenize the two major parties and make elections even more of a farce than they already are.
What we saw is the majority of american voters decided they want the right. If the majority did not it would have turned out different. No one makes left turn by not turning the wheel left or trying to turn it right in the hopes of doing a 270.
Possibly their ballots were faked? Could we all get a look see? I just want to make sure my ballot looks exactly as I voted.
Or maybe Latinos are fucking retarded? Pinches huercos jijos de su reputa Bomba Madre. Como cabrones se les biene a votar por la pinche bolsa de miados Trump??? But I digress.
Reading that article is a serious indictment of economic literacy in the United States. People don’t understand what role the president plays in the economy, what causes inflation, or how and why interest rates change. They draw really superficial causal links and don’t think about it after that; it’s fact to them.
It’s reasons like this education may be the single most critical issue, since we can’t make progress on the climate or anything else if the population is incapable of critical thinking. I hate to say it like this because it feels patronizing, but Jesus fucking Christ.
Not to mention the “inflation” was entirely fabricated to hurt Joe and the Democrats. All they had to do was ask people what inflation? To ask them how there was record inflation AND record profits with large payouts to CEOs. It’s gross that the rich fabricated this, sold it to the masses, and they ate it up.
In 2016, I was angry at the decision some made, but understood that no one knew who tRump was, what he stood for, or how he’d govern. In 2024, we knew all of that. It’s clear this is what people want. They won’t ever know how badly they fucked themselves cause they’ll be told who is really to blame and they’re too stupid to get a second opinion.
They didn’t gut the public educational system on accident, things are functioning as designed.
A few weeks ago a poor POC came up to me trying to convince me to vote Trump because “Trump will put money in your pocket”
I asked him what he meant by that, thinking his reasoning would be tax cuts or inflation. Alas, his reasoning was that he thought the COVID stimulus checks came from Trump’s personal wealth and that him winning the presidency again would mean we would get more.
It was when I noticed the other people around me agreeing with him that I knew we were doomed. What can man do against such reckless ignorance?
You should have vomited all over him like in that stand by me movie, causing everyone else around you to vomit all over everyone else.
This was unfortunately a missed opportunity for you.
That’s by design.
Democracy does not work, we need a better system
So a dictatorship, then?
How about a democracy where you’re only allowed to vote after taking extensive courses on how to vote, see what’s important for you and others, and where you learn to see populism of any sort for what it is?
While at it, add a requirement that anyone wanting to get votes must first undergo psychopathy testing, that’d be nice
Obviously also remove the first past the post, winner takes all type democracies
Trump voters are stupid and have poor memories.
Except for the ones who are just plain evil.
Exactly how Hitler got in.
Ok commie.
Even though the 2020 election was rigged.
“It’s simple, really. We liked the way things were four years ago,”
You liked living in a crumbling economy riddled with mass unemployment and caused by a fumbled pandemic response that resulted in thousands of preventable deaths? Because that’s where we were 4 years ago. That’s the economy Trump gave us the first time.
resulted in thousands of preventable deaths
Millions, and it’s still climbing thanks in large part to his decision to politicize public health.
It turns out that trying to fix a problem is more memorable than causing said problem. Interesting, but not terribly surprising given the long running joke that American voters have very short attention spans
Trump’s policy was just juicing the system for short term gain which can go on for quite a while in good times but when you’re at 0% interest already at the START of a pandemic and economic crisis it’s obvious you’ve been much too irresponsible with the economy.
just a reminder. interest rates at the end of obamas last term where 3 or 4 percent and not zero the way they were when covid hit. I recall someone on tv complaining a lot about the fed trying to ruin his economy.
I’m calling it. The Fed will start gradually lowering its interest rates down to near 0 as the stock market booms with cheap money. The news will show troubling social and geopolitical problems that will be quickly swept over by the latest Dow Jones and S&P 500 values getting to absurd heights. People will start grumbling about the nation’s problems again while Trump will say it’s the “Deep State” causing all of this and pointing the finger at Democrats and undocumented immigrants.
Inflation starts to spike again at the start of the 4th year of Trump’s presidency. Even more people will start to go homeless as the average monthly cost of a 1 bedroom apartment soars to $3k. If Trump is still “healthy”, the Supreme Court will declare a sitting president can hold on to power during times of emergency and cancel US elections.
Ok commie.
BTW, the fed reserve is a private insitution seperate from the government.
given the china tarrifs it might be one of those faster than expected thing.
War against mexico. Human safari drone tactics against southern US cities. Internment camps for Latios. Martial law. No more voting ever.
“We saw a huge difference when Trump was president,” Dietzler said, adding that he was drawn to Trump’s embrace of former Democrats like Robert F Kennedy Jr
These people are morons. And they’re happy about it.
Welcome to America
To be fair I notice a huge difference when trump was president and it determined how I voted.
Same. That’s why I voted for Harris
zactly
It’s simple, really. We liked the way things were four years ago
You can’t fix stupid.
