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Miles Archer

(20,381 posts)
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 04:53 PM 6 hrs ago

"Price of eggs" voters' "vague nostalgia" for "TRUMP ECONOMY" in 1st term...it was just PRE-COVID America

'They bought into the lie': Analyst warns Trump 'price of eggs voters' are turning on him

https://www.rawstory.com/they-bought-into-the-lie-analyst-warns-trump-price-of-eggs-voters-are-turning-on-him/

"There are the hardcore Trump loyalists — and yes, that’s most Trump voters — but he doesn’t get over the hill without that other 10 percent: the price of eggs voters. They’ll tell pollsters or in focus groups that they don’t like Trump. They’ll say he’s gross, he’s racist, he’s a pig — but they’ve bought into this lie that he’s a competent businessman," she (Salon's Amanda Marcotte) said.

Those "price of egg voters," she said, look to Trump's first term with "rose-colored glasses. They have this vague nostalgia for what they thought was the Trump economy in his first term, which was really just pre-COVID America."

While he still has the support of his loyal base, Marcotte said, Trump is hemorrhaging his other voters.

"What’s happening now is that those voters — the ones he really does need on board if he wants to get anything done — are turning against him pretty quickly. You can see it when you break down the polling: young voters, a lot of whom were actual kids when Trump was president the first time, and Latino voters who bought into the notion that his racism was a joke," She said.

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"Price of eggs" voters' "vague nostalgia" for "TRUMP ECONOMY" in 1st term...it was just PRE-COVID America (Original Post) Miles Archer 6 hrs ago OP
Yes the economy he inherited from Obama/Biden mikeysnot 6 hrs ago #1
That always happens but what really pisses me off BigmanPigman 5 hrs ago #4
Average voters memory mikeysnot 3 hrs ago #8
In my experience this was not the reality: "Latino voters who bought into the notion that his racism was a joke" AZJonnie 5 hrs ago #2
Wife and I bought a two-pack of Bounty paper towels and box of aspirin (Bayer100). RedWhiteBlueIsRacist 5 hrs ago #3
Our weekly grocery shopping average was around $200 Miles Archer 4 hrs ago #5
We've walked out of several restaurants without buying anything once we've seen the menu prices. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist 4 hrs ago #7
When you listen to idiots like Alex Jones who called the pandemic a hoax and a false flag... Initech 4 hrs ago #6
77 million people mikeysnot 3 hrs ago #9
The approval numbers aren't coinciding with the election results. Initech 2 hrs ago #11
I called it Trump amnesia D_Master81 2 hrs ago #10

BigmanPigman

(53,961 posts)
4. That always happens but what really pisses me off
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 06:24 PM
5 hrs ago

is the memory of the average voter. A gnat has a longer memory. I'm thoroughly disgusted.

AZJonnie

(1,756 posts)
2. In my experience this was not the reality: "Latino voters who bought into the notion that his racism was a joke"
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 06:10 PM
5 hrs ago

Latino voters are, by definition, citizens. That means they are either born here, or they "did things the right way" and earned the right to vote. A sizeable percentage of such people have animosity towards others who, while they may also be "Latino", are failing to follow the rules (as they themselves did), and think they are negatively impacted, one way or another, by their presence. Latino voters are likely to view "illegals" as "competitors", just as much as the average Caucasian cuck does. And they thought Trump would mostly be going after "the criminal gangs", which Latino citizens by and large would LIKE to see being done (like everyone else).

So, the ones who voted for him either underestimated his evil, or thought that to be less important in comparison to the goal of improving their own lot. For many, self-interest was paramount above any perceived "ethnicity or country-of-origin" bonds they feel to "Latinos" in general.

Seems as though a lot them have since come to realization that they actually have no protection or privilege with IQ47 in charge, that he flirts with revoking their citizenship, and they see him even kidnapping and deporting their friends and relatives that have LEGAL RIGHT to be here. A right which is being pretty much ignored. That is going too far for a LOT more Latinos than just tightening up the border and deporting the criminal element would be.

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(1,219 posts)
3. Wife and I bought a two-pack of Bounty paper towels and box of aspirin (Bayer100).
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 06:15 PM
5 hrs ago

this past Saturday at a CVS. Price was a whopping $23+ with tax. WTF

Miles Archer

(20,381 posts)
5. Our weekly grocery shopping average was around $200
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 06:35 PM
4 hrs ago

Now it's around $300 and we're bringing home less. We live in a small town and only go into town once a week, so I have a pretty decent memory when it comes to how much we spend.

RedWhiteBlueIsRacist

(1,219 posts)
7. We've walked out of several restaurants without buying anything once we've seen the menu prices.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 06:57 PM
4 hrs ago

Kinda embarrassing, but heck.

Initech

(106,478 posts)
6. When you listen to idiots like Alex Jones who called the pandemic a hoax and a false flag...
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 06:37 PM
4 hrs ago

This is the bullshit we have to deal with.

Initech

(106,478 posts)
11. The approval numbers aren't coinciding with the election results.
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 09:04 PM
2 hrs ago

Someone definitely interfered.

D_Master81

(2,230 posts)
10. I called it Trump amnesia
Mon Oct 6, 2025, 08:31 PM
2 hrs ago

People remembered the stock market going up. The low unemployment really didn’t go down much from where it was when he took office but people remembered the “historically low unemployment numbers” and thought he was responsible for it. I always said at the time Trump had the easiest 4 years to be President of anyone in my lifetime until Covid when he actually had to lead and he failed miserably.

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