It doesn’t even matter:

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/18/consumer-confidence-trump-republicans-white-house

Turns out, a lot of consumer mood is literally just people’s social media feeds. Even if prices go up and QoL goes down, on average, consumers might feel better simply because Trump being in office makes them feel good.

I am not going to point out how monumentally problematic this is… Nope. There’s definitely no bad precedent for that.

Trump will get blamed

Like they blamed him for his COVID-19 response?

If that didn’t get through… honestly, I have no idea what would. Americans are just stuck in their feeds and divorced from reality now.