Paul Cantrell
Something to keep in mind when you hear that voters care about the economy and vote the way they do because of the economy and vote for fascists because of the economy…
…is that for about half the country, “the economy” just means “whether a Republican is president.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/feb/27/trump-economy-poll
Michael Dekker
@inthehands The belief by Republicans that Republican presidents are better for the economy defies all logic and evidence.
Paul Cantrell
That reporter from The Guardian — and the Harris pollster they talk to — dance around this, but just somehow can’t quite put it together:
They have the causal arrow backwards for a •large• chunk of voters. That chunk didn’t vote for Trump because they thought the economy was bad under Biden; they thought the economy was bad •because• they vote for Trump.
(Yes, there are •also• plenty of people whose “economic concerns” are actually economic concerns. But they are only one part of Trump’s coalition, maybe not even a majority of it. Analysis that misses that fact misses the whole story.)
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