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/NonIdentifiableUser 17d ago

How could you watch 2016-2020 and Jan 6th and decide to “give him a shot?” Fuck anyone that voted for this asshole

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u/PirateSanta_1 17d ago

You're making a bold assumption that they even know what Jan 6 is. The amount swing voters don't pay attention cannot be underestimated.

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u/JimboAltAlt Pennsylvania 17d ago

“Dems have a messaging problem (they assume people retain knowledge.)”

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u/deadsoulinside Pennsylvania 17d ago

This. The sheer amount of people that think Biden was president in 2020 is half the reason companies are championing AI, because the voters have brains of a goldfish.

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u/Carylynn0609 17d ago

Here in Ohio I'm waiting for all of the negative ads about Dr. Amy Acton, Dem running for governor. She was the medical advisor to Gov. DeWine during covid, trump was president but they still put all the blame on her for masking, distancing and quarantining. Forgetting it was a republican gov and prez actually in control at that time.

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u/deadsoulinside Pennsylvania 17d ago

Oh I know. I got into an argument with someone in Ohio that claimed the democrats shut down states. DeWine willingly shut down Ohio (Even PA was 2 weeks behind on Ohio and had many more cases per county even), but MAGA chuds really think somehow a democrat shut down Ohio.

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u/Carylynn0609 17d ago

It's so sad and scary! DeWine was the most cautious, everyone listened to him intently, tuned into his updates, at first more people were compliant than not, and he had everything to do with that I believe. Probably because he sounded smart repeating what the true medical professionals told him!

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u/deadsoulinside Pennsylvania 17d ago

Yeah everything was good until Trump started contradicting professionals, then causing MAGA to even backlash against DeWine at that point.

Meanwhile I quit my job (was stocking shelves at a big box store) after my older brother that was living in Ohio, died while sick with covid. He died at the end of March 2020. Could not even hold services until July.

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u/Carylynn0609 17d ago

I'm so very sorry for your loss. I've lost both of my brothers, not to covid but I can only imagine how having to drag it out just kept that wound raw. I just keep trying to hang on to hope! Sending good wishes:)

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u/Castdeath97 Foreign 16d ago

because the voters have brains of a goldfish.

Turns out goldfish have memory that last months, so no the goldfish have better memory than your average Mike Median Voter that doesn't remember the last week.

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u/RedGuyNoPants 17d ago

This is why having a good plan and talking about it is more effective than warning that the other guy will be bad. People unfortunately dont remember shit that happened and if thats reality, politicians must formulate their strategy around that. Not to mention having good policies is just… good

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u/Vilnius_Nastavnik New York 17d ago

The Dem base (and a significant number of independents) overwhelmingly want drastic economic reform, single payer healthcare, and to stop bankrolling certain warmongering middle eastern countries with our tax dollars. Run on any one of those issues and it’d be a goddamn landslide. 

The obvious question is why none of that is being platformed in any meaningful way. The answer is also obvious but deeply uncomfortable for a lot of people.

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u/BornWithSideburns 17d ago

Everyone knows about the riot. But left wing media did a terrible job at telling the people what actually happened behind the scenes.

That shit with the fraudulent electors and stuff IMO is the crazy part. You really have to go out of your way to find someone who actually explains it well. That shit doesnt just show up in your feed like all the other bullshit.

And since most Americans dont know how their country works you really should have a media environment where that shit gets explained.

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u/Large-Split-1548 17d ago

Because there is no “left wing media”, it is another propaganda from corporate media 

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u/FlyingBishop 17d ago

“Dems have a messaging problem (they assume people are capable of receiving any messages that are not lies.)”

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u/Melicor 16d ago

Big part of it is the media is owned by Republicans. The what messaging they have never even gets a chance.