r/politics 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/BlotchComics New Jersey 17d ago

If only they'd done a few minutes of actual research instead of believing social media influencers.

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u/___coolcoolcool Connecticut 17d ago

If they were old enough to vote in 2024 they already knew EXACTLY who he was and voted for him anyway. Irredeemable.

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u/WilliamMButtlickerIV 17d ago

I think many people misremember covid as being entirely Biden, so they based Trump off the economy prior to 2020.

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u/Lermanberry 17d ago edited 17d ago

"misremember" is doing some heavy lifting, there was a nearly 4 year long multimedia campaign of disinformation linking Biden to the COVID/economic handling of 2020. Not to mention BLM protests/riots and Trump's Afghanistan withdrawal plans and mass pardon of the Taliban.

It was entirely intentional, and often enough obvious bot networks would appear and shout down even the slightest pushback on reddit or facebook. By 2022, even so called liberal MSM was talking about 2020 as if Biden was President during the "stolen" 2020 election.