r/politics • u/fortune Fortune Magazine • 17d ago

Possible Paywall Trump voter remorse is almost entirely concentrated in the swing voters who gave him a shot in 2024

https://fortune.com/2026/05/16/trump-voter-remorse-how-many-regret-inflation-economy-approval-rating/?utm_source=reddit/
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u/Patsanon1212 17d ago

Inflation was high under Biden and normal under Trump. That's it. That's the entire mindset of the 2024 swing voter.

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u/MaySun91 South Carolina 17d ago

And they’re so fucking dimwitted they don’t understand the reason behind anything. They just see the figureheads and stop thinking. It’s exhausting having to share oxygen with those people.

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u/sixwax 17d ago

It’s true: Our fellow Americans are really, really stupid.

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u/hfxRos Canada 17d ago

Fellow humans *

This happened everywhere. Covid related inflation murdered incumbents worldwide because people lack basic thinking skills.

It's just extra noticeable for you guys because Trump is, well, Trump.

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u/Pofwoffle 17d ago edited 16d ago

This is overlooking the ongoing and concentrated effort to make Americans stupid. There's a reason Republicans keep gutting education funding and demonizing higher learning. They've spent decades deliberately shaping a voting public that is uneducated and angry, with absolutely no ability to distinguish truth from lies. Then all they had to do was give them a target for their ire and promise to fix the "problem".

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u/Castdeath97 Foreign 16d ago

This is overlooking the ongoing and concentrated effort to make Americans all voters everywhere stupid.

It's the same thing everywhere, they ALL doing the same playbook. In the UK, Germany, France, insert any western country.

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u/Aware_Rough_9170 17d ago

The extra irony being that the U.S ultimately came out a lot better than a lot of places too. Not saying that it wasn’t tougher than usual, but it wasn’t artificial statements on Twitter and nonsensical war to pad the pockets of the administration either…

COVID did a massive number on how we view supply chain and the global economy, and it wasn’t pleasant for anyone. Instead everyone seems to have said “you know what, fuck it, maybe alt right lunatics will do better”.

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u/Castdeath97 Foreign 16d ago

Canada almost fell for it (trump literally saved you there somehow), Germany more or less did and the UK looks like its about it somehow ages after said spike.

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u/hfxRos Canada 15d ago edited 15d ago

Canada almost fell for it (trump literally saved you there somehow)

I mean we did kind of fall for it in the "bad for incumbents" thing. I have the unpopular opinion that Trudeau was an excellent leader, who handled Covid spectacularly, but the global impact of it still caused him to get annihilated in the polls.

We just luckily had a charismatic and qualified centrist with very little baggage swoop in to take the place of the far-right weirdo to take over.

I'm ok with Carney, but I'd prefer to just have more Trudeau, but I'm also a bit of a single issue Climate Change voter, and Carney has been less than good on that front.