In fact they’re not buying much of anything
Trump can fake the numbers and fire the messengers all he wants but that won’t change this:
- American families are struggling financially, and 6 in 10 place blame on Donald Trump for driving up their cost of living. Across a range of different questions, respondents report difficulty making ends meet and keeping up with bills, and were concerned with falling further behind. More than half believe that billionaires, corporations, and congressional Republicans have made their lives harder. Notably, 6 in 10 believe that after just six months on the job, the Trump administration has negatively impacted their cost of living.
- To manage the high cost of living, Americans are turning to debt and other risky financial products and practices. While the federal government tears down programs such as Medicaid and food assistance and federal regulators give the green light to companies to rip off consumers, families are being forced to construct their own safety nets from a web of risky financial practices. In the past year, more than 40 percent of Americans have dipped into savings, 37 percent have turned to credit cards, and many report borrowing from friends and family and taking on debt just to pay the bills…
- Americans think corporate interests, not government red tape, are the biggest obstacle to making change—and they think it should be a top priority of the government to hold companies accountable for unfairly hiking prices, driving up the cost of living, and taking advantage of people. While some policymakers and experts have emphasized bureaucracy and red tape as a primary barrier to big public projects that lower costs for average people, more than half of Americans believe that the influence of corporations and billionaires is the biggest obstacle, not red tape. Americans also see it as a top priority to not just lower costs, but to hold accountable those companies and individuals who unfairly drove costs up in the first place.
Please, please, no one tell me that I have to respect the 40% of people who see Trump bragging about the numbers when they’re good and then whining like a five year old that they’ve been rigged when they’re bad and can’t see through him. It’s impossible to make any excuses for people who support that kind of fatuous nonsense. They know what he’s doing and they either don’t care or they like it. Either way, those people are lost.