Summary

Consumer confidence has declined since Donald Trump’s return to office, with the University of Michigan reporting a drop in sentiment and rising inflation concerns.

Many Trump voters are frustrated by market turbulence and sweeping executive orders. Voter Paul Bisson fears economic instability, saying, “That’s not what we signed up for.”

Geneticist Nicholas Schuch plans to move savings to Swiss Francs, expecting ongoing chaos.

Polls indicate growing anxiety, with some supporters questioning Trump’s policies and their long-term economic impact.

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    Bullshit. I live in a red state. They’re not turning on him at all. You can always find a couple of people to express any view that you want to amplify and write an article pretending they’re representative of their entire group.

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    I dunno if I like articles like this, because I haven’t really heard anyone really say this. I like in podunk Midwest state and folks around here are set that things are already getting better, and if they aren’t, it’s because of the last administration or because Democrats keep getting in the way.

    Online, comments from articles and a certain sub reddit are all bouncing around ecstatically and shouting “WINNING” with everything that is happening. I’d like to think the mirage is fading, but I have been able to find truth of that just yet.

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    Trump voters don’t care about these things. they have a completely different rhetorical frame. this article is bullshit. trump voters are liking the chaos a lot because they think its good because they think liberals are bad. all you need to do is follow the usual conservative talking heads if you want to know what they’re thinking.

    I hate this clickbait feel good happy toxic optimism shit. it doesn’t do any good to anyone. this article was only written to keep leftists stupid. downvote this fake garbage.

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      The media is publicizing these lies to keep people from getting the idea that they need to do something.

      “Oh good his voters are turning on him” helps placate the opposition. It keeps people from wanting to do something.

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        no, they’re doing it because it gets you to post the article on Reddit and Lemmy, to your Facebook so you feel like youre winning the debate with your dad.

        it’s pure nihilism

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      I hate this clickbait feel good happy toxic optimism shit.

      Every time I see an article like this, I go check old.shittyplace.com/r/conservative and see nothing but Trump cheerleaders. When the tide starts to change there, I’ll believe they might have gained a spark of awareness.

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      I am adjacent to a lot of Trump voters through my wife relating conversations from her 95% Trump voting company. Other than having to stamp out some offensive exuberance, there has been no reaction to any of it. They are just excited about the ascendency of the right and waiting for the “benefits” to percolate through society.

      Despite having gay kids they support, etc. Any doubts or second thoughts they are having are not being shared. Could be the network effect of not wanting to be the first to break faith, but that could just as easily be wishful thinking.

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      Until they stop admitting to voting for Trump or start outright saying, “We fucked up,” this is just nitpicking his priorities.

  • 🎨 Elaine Cortez 🇨🇦 @lemm.ee
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    The reason I find it hard to sympathize with the people who voted for him is because he’s been advertising everything he’s currently doing for the past few years, and now the people who voted for him are surprised that he’s actually doing what he’d said he’d do.

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      They signed up to make everyone else suffer and now they’re shocked and dismayed that they’re probably going to suffer too. I feel for everyone that has to share a country with people that would throw them to the wolves first chance they get while demanding unearned respect for themselves. But if I were religious, I’d tell these people to rot in hell.

      Seriously, if sanity ever returns to the world, I hope that the lesson we walk away with is that right wingers, conservatives and religious fundies should never be allowed anywhere near positions of power again. Because when they have it, their whole aim is to uplift themselves and only themselves while fucking over everyone else in society.

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    Lmao fuck all of them. This is exactly what they signed up for. You fucked around now find out you worthless cunts.

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    <jules>

    Yes you DID. YES YOU DID!

    </jules>

    And it’s going to be a whole fuck-ton more than just economic instability, you dumbasses.

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    With all due respect, this is exactly what you all signed up for you stupid fucking pieces of shit.

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    Um, he is doing exactly what he said he would do. These people just thought being white would keep them safe.

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      Not even. There are even people in immigrant families that voted for him because “he’s only going to deport the bad ones” and then [surprised Pikachu] a bunch of their own family get deported

      There’s stupid, and there’s zealotism, but stupid zealots are the worst

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    no, assholes…this is EXACTLY what you signed up for. revel in it.

    you didn’t just accept it

    you fucking demanded it.

    now live with it.

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    “This chaos isn’t what I signed up for” says people who voted for chaos goblin who told people he wanted chaos

    Get entirely fucked trump voters. As well as the people who told me that BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE and TrUmP wIlL nOt Be WoRsE tHaN GeNoCiDe JoE oR KiLlEr KaMaLa

    The "I told you so"s will never be worth it.

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    Do we really think there’s a significant number of Trump voters out there who regret their vote? Really?

    It seems far more likely to me that most Trump voters are doubling down. “Prices are going to come down way lower than they were before Trump took office. This is actually Biden’s fault. Prices are going down, actually. Particularly eggs, depsite what the woke MSM would tell you. In fact, eggs are cheapest in states with the least restrictive gun regulations and highest deportation rates for illegals. Prices have never been this low. Trump is making Mexico pay our grocery bills.”

    Sure, you can find one or two people who will claim to be regretful Trump voters. (Just like you can find a very few microbiologists who swear the universe was created in six literal days around 6,000 years ago.) But I can’t imagine any significant number of Trump voters having that much self awareness and intellectual honesty.

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      I see no criticism or complaints from his voters at all. Here’s what I’m seeing from them:

      “You can’t expect results already, it’s only been less than a month! It will take some time for his policies to work.”

      “The problem with the eggs is because Biden ordered millions of chickens to be killed.”

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      The egg thing is going to be VERY painful cognitive dissonance for those that walk into a store and find no eggs, or a limit on purchase, etc. And that may take a while before that changes.

      These people lie to each other, themselves, and to “the libs” on a regular basis. I’m sure they can lie about empty shelves, too, but it will be a bigger lie than just lying about what prices were before vs. now.

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      That’s when you tell them about deflation and the fact that the State will never let it happen.

      Get used to it bitches, prices aren’t coming down, it would create a spiral of economic chaos!

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    Throwback to his first term when one of his supporters said “He’s hurting the wrong people!”

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      I wonder if anyone has done a “where are they now?” on that guy and tracked him down and found out how he’s voted since.

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        I believe it was a woman who said it. Either way, their motivation for supporting Trump seems to be to cause harm to people they believe deserve it, and the motivation hasn’t changed.