they voted against the current administration’s handling of the economy, inflation, immigration, etc. Not necessarily for Trump, but against.
They agreed with the propaganda of poor handing of economy ... they agreed with the propaganda Biden caused inflation ... they agreed with the propaganda that the conflated illegal and legal immigration was the cause of all their problems (a la Hitler). The standard metrics of an economy indicate we have as good or better economy than Trump did and yet the Biden administration couldn't communicate those facts. Inflation was the simple result of the classic macro-economic equation shortage in supplies with a high demand => high prices (inflation) or capitalism in action, and yet the Biden administration couldn't convey that lesson in economics to the masses, as well as the administration efforts to lower the inflation rate while the fed took aggressive actions to rein in what could have been really devastating inflation, and still maintain employment, while the rest of the world suffered with much higher rates of inflation. Immigration is, was, and has been a problem for many years spanning every administration, both Republican and Democrat. That Congress is at loggerheads dealing with the issue is a function of conservative Republican refusal to compromise. Democrats have been more than willing to forego salient agenda items in order to write a commonsense bill which would appeal to Republicans. We have had bills in the past 15 years with the help of conservative Republicans only to be shot down by the extremists and now with Trump. Apparently Trump believes it is better to deport people who have entered legally seeking asylum rather than spending the money to reinforce border security and additional judicial help processing filings.
It will be problematic if the economy remains on the same trajectory, which began during Obama's administration, if Trump imposes arbitrarily high tariffs on all imports. This will be further exacerbated by removal of a large number of people who contribute to the economy, who will have no replacements, and thus leading to higher unemployment, lower revenues, and high prices. As far as asylum seekers is concerned, the rates have been cut in half, already. This will probably continue. Trump will claim he did it. Trump will probably stop all asylum seekers from entering the US, thus imposing a large burden on Mexico and increasing an already dangerous environment on the border.
Basically I agree with you. There is a reason the administration couldn't address these problems effectively .... we have an electorate too ignorant to care about the facts. And I haven't even typed about the real issue ... Death of Democracy. Do any of those issues matter if there is no Democracy????
