@IDoTheThinking My sense is that the electorate largely agrees with the D’s, but votes the ‘wrong’ way; so it is a _messaging_ issue. Don’t you think so?
@JamesSurowiecki And inflation’s effects are primarily psychological for those whose incomes rise along with prices. And this can be a single digit percentage.
@JamesSurowiecki Mandate? Perhaps not. He got a solid win, but given the chaotic messaging coming from his campaign, it’s doubtful that people can be rightly said to have known what a vote for Trump meant.
@IDoTheThinking California and other safe states need to build housing—while the Feds are doing nothing for red states—and tip the census in their favor for reapportionment.
@JamesSurowiecki Biden needed to do a better job of selling his economic successes all along, countering Trump’s everything is going to hell messaging.
@WinstonSmith327@JamesSurowiecki The benefits did not all go to the top. Trump will be inheriting an economy that he (and the Fed) rescued from the effects of the pandemic.