"New polling shows many Americans have begun to blame President Donald Trump for the high costs they’re feeling across virtually every part of their lives — and it’s shifting politics.

Almost half — 46 percent — say the cost of living in the U.S. is the worst they can ever remember it being, a view held by 37 percent of 2024 Trump voters."

~ Erin Doherty

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
/2

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/04/poll-americans-trump-voters-affordability-crisis-00674747

"Trump won the 2024 election in large part because nonwhite Americans, relative to their voting decisions in 2020, moved significantly in his direction. Pew’s survey of validated voters found that black, Latino, and Asian-American voters shifted toward Trump by 16, 22, and 23 percentage points, respectively."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries #immigrants
/12

"DONALD TRUMP’S LATEST ASSAULT ON IMMIGRANTS—threatening to 'denaturalize' U.S. citizens who were born in other countries—is an affront to human rights & American values. It’s also a betrayal of the six million naturalized Americans who voted for him last year. Without their ballots, he wouldn’t be president. And if they turn against him, his party will be out of power."

~ Will Saletan

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries #immigrants
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-bites-the-hand-that-voted-for-him-naturalized-immigrants-citizens
/11

"Trump is handling this reversal with his usual style and grace: in the past few days he has repeatedly called affordability a 'hoax' and a 'con job.' ....

Trump may believe that affordability is a con job, but it isn’t. It’s going to hit him and his allies hard. And it couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
/10

"Although economists warned that there was no way he could deliver on those promises, enough voters believed him to swing the election.

Now that Trump has in fact utterly failed to deliver, those voters — especially those Black and Latino voters who believed him — have swung back to the Democrats with a vengeance."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
/9

"In the summer of 2024, as Trump was lagging in the polls behind Kamala Harris, he began to repeatedly and explicitly promise not simply to reduce inflation but to deliver large declines in consumer prices: 'Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down.'"

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices
/8

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/magas-affordability-crisis-will-soon

"The vibe is late Bourbon decadence and indifference, King Donald the Corpulent in his palace, while the peasantry starves."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices
/7

"There is no universe, in this one or any alternate timeline, where 'let’s lock up the economic data and build a shiny new ballroom' is a winning affordability message.

Yet here we are.

You saw Donald Trump’s 18th iteration of his affordability message yesterday, when he said of affordability, 'It doesn’t mean anything to anybody…The word affordability is a con job by the Democrats.'”

~ Rick Wilson

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices
/6

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/a-blue-revolution-is-brewing

“'Affordability' doesn’t have a universally agreed-upon definition. Is it just a vibe? A number? How can you tell if it’s getting better or worse?

So let’s talk about how you might go about measuring affordability, if you were trying to do so in an intellectually honest way, and what Trump could do to improve the issue. He’s probably not going to like the answer."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
/5

“'The word "affordability" is a con job by the Democrats,' Trump declared during this week’s cabinet meeting, in between snoozes. 'The word "affordability" is a Democrat scam,' he insisted, adding that the word 'doesn’t mean anything to anybody.'

Sure, just last week he was proclaiming himself 'THE AFFORDABILITY PRESIDENT,' but maybe he has a point."

~ Catherine Rampell

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
/4

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-affordability-con-job-inflation

"Those are among the new results from The POLITICO Poll that crystallize a growing warning sign for Republicans ahead of next year’s midterms: Some of the very groups that powered Trump’s victory last year are showing signs of breaking from that coalition, and it’s the high cost of living that’s driving them away."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
/3

"New polling shows many Americans have begun to blame President Donald Trump for the high costs they’re feeling across virtually every part of their lives — and it’s shifting politics.

Almost half — 46 percent — say the cost of living in the U.S. is the worst they can ever remember it being, a view held by 37 percent of 2024 Trump voters."

~ Erin Doherty

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
/2

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/04/poll-americans-trump-voters-affordability-crisis-00674747

"The Economist/YouGov poll released Monday found that 44% of respondents say prices are much higher than a year ago, including 21% of Trump voters. Meanwhile, Trump’s approval on affordability sits at a dire -27 points."

~ Andrew Wilson

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
/1

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-gop-is-unravelling

Mike Brock explains why he concludes the following:

"Bitcoin is for fascists."

A system built on perceiving everyone else as the enemy and enriching oneself at everyone else's expense as the admirable goal….

#Trump #economy #prices #inflation #EconomicElites #pardons #corruption #bitcoin #crypto
/9

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/bitcoin-is-a-lie

"Donald Trump used to borrow money from banks. Now he’s out of the bank game altogether. His money is in the cloud of crypto so nobody can count it, nobody can see it, nobody can trace it.

That’s where all his payoffs are. No more paper trails."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #economy #prices #inflation #EconomicElites #pardons #corruption #bitcoin #crypto
/11

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/our-president-is-a-thief-what-other

"No more electronic trails. No more evidence of corruption. It all happens out there in a mysterious, impenetrable land called crypto. What other conclusion can you draw?"

#Trump #economy #prices #inflation #EconomicElites #pardons #corruption #bitcoin #crypto
/12

"Donald Trump used to borrow money from banks. Now he’s out of the bank game altogether. His money is in the cloud of crypto so nobody can count it, nobody can see it, nobody can trace it.

That’s where all his payoffs are. No more paper trails."

~ Lucian K. Truscott

#Trump #economy #prices #inflation #EconomicElites #pardons #corruption #bitcoin #crypto
/11

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/our-president-is-a-thief-what-other

"The question I keep asking Bitcoin advocates, the one they always dodge:

Why do fascists love Bitcoin?"

~ Mike Brock

#Trump #economy #prices #inflation #EconomicElites #pardons #corruption #bitcoin #crypto
/10

https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-banality-of-bitcoin-advocacy

"This is how you defeat authoritarianism. Not by screaming the word 'fascist' louder but by revealing the economic betrayal at its core. Trump promised to make life more affordable. Instead, he’s making it harder and more expensive while consolidating power and enriching his allies."

~ Jesse F. Ferguson

#Trump #economy #prices #inflation #energy #electricity #gas #ballroom #EconomicElites #SuperRich
/2

https://contrarian.substack.com/p/its-the-economy-fascist