That's definitely why Trump is -27 net approval.
(and his approval would be the same mid 40s it always was if gas prices were reasonable)
This is the problem when your entire identity and principles boil down to "doing what the social superior tells you to".
Trump won the popular vote in 2024 [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...
Those people voted for the lies, knowing full well that they were lies, and then are acting surprised that the lies are lies.
And how did that work out for Biden?
Voters don’t like inflation. Blowing up energy prices by launching a war of choice while shutting down domestic production because windmills isn’t smart policy.
Current inflation is a fuckup [1]. Pretending it doesn’t exist is a fuckup. They aren’t unprecedented fuckups. But they are consistently punished.
Inflation is exceptionally high right now for a developed country. It’s feeding into cost-of-living issues that are animating voters.
[1] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/ 7.2 annualized in September
Biden’s inflation peaked worse than anything Trump has done. But telling voters you’re only slapping them after the other guy punched them is about as effective as you’d think. (There is zero sense of urgency from the White House around this either.)
Yes. Then the party that did that got trounced. Then nobody learned any lessons.
He’s a pariah everywhere on earth, most especially at home. The sad part is the democrats couldn’t mount a successful campaign against someone so unfit to lead. Now there’s nothing left to do but clean up the mess and undo the terrible harm he has caused and repair what can be once he’s finally out of our hair.