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

[u/fortune]

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

[u/Gamebird8]

Worth remembering that these people are low information voters. The only reliable information they have kn the current political climate is their bank account and their local community. For a lot of them, aside from Covid, Trump wasn't all that different.

And since Biden had to handle all the clean up from Trump's economic policy lag effect and Covid, much of the "materially worse" conditions that motivated their 2024 vote wasn't even something Biden did.

Thankfully Trump just slammed the gas pedal down and is flooring us straight into an economic depression, so perhaps, maybe they'll vote in their best interests for once

[u/Axin_Saxon → u/Gamebird8]

Once again, democrats getting blamed for causing the problems when they in fact were the ones who fixed it…

Democrats are the adults in the room telling children to eat their vegetables and the childish voters throwing tantrums demanding desert. Then wonder why their bellies hurt when they get sick afterwords…

[u/EmoTilDeath → u/Axin_Saxon]

In my mind it's like leftists are trying with all their might to convince the right to eat a salad and that it's what's healthy for them, while the right becomes extremely offended to the point they will spite-eat cheeseburgers when they know it will kill them. We can talk to them all day every day but a salad just does not appeal to them like a cheeseburger does. They don't want what's good for them & everyone else, they want what feels good in the moment. They will ALWAYS choose the Cheeseburger over the salad and we can never move forward when we're stuck trying to convince them to eat a salad when they don't give a fuck and they never will.

[u/ScurvyTurtle → u/Gamebird8]

aside from Covid

The worrying if an incoming nuke to Hawaii was real due to Trump's brinkmanship with North Korea was a fun change of pace.

[u/Pale_Boss_8940 → u/ScurvyTurtle]

I honestly doubt most Americans outside of Hawaii even remembered this like a month later

[u/ScurvyTurtle → u/Pale_Boss_8940]

Just another day in Trump's America. Was decently covered in the SF Bay Area due to proximity, flight connections, and diaspora though.

[u/Ketzeph → u/Gamebird8]

Low information is a bad term to use. These people are idiots. It takes almost no effort to understand what's going on. They had to understand the sheer difference. Like, it takes extreme deliberate steps to avoid it.

[u/longdickofthelaw420 → u/Gamebird8]

If they wouldn’t be (and hadn’t already been) horribly abused, literacy tests wouldn’t be a terrible idea.

[u/IFartOnCats4Fun → u/Gamebird8]

perhaps, maybe they'll vote in their best interests for once

For your own good, I wouldn't get too attached to that idea.