Data published Friday shows that U.S. consumer sentiment cratered in early March to its lowest level since late 2022 as President Donald Trump's erratic tariff policies and assault on the federal government—the nation's largest employer—spurred far-reaching economic chaos.The University of Michigan'...
  • Aidinthel@reddthat.com
    1462·
    13 hours ago

    Good thing the Democrats already gave up all their leverage for the next six months, or else they might be expected to do something to capitalize on this.

    • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
      41·
      5 hours ago

      Ya’ll are absolutely overestimating the power of the continue resolution vote. It was never going to turn things around.

    • credo@lemmy.world
      168·
      11 hours ago

      Or… now hear me out… we let America get exactly what it voted for. Democrats can’t keep bailing out the republicans.

        • credo@lemmy.world
          5·
          2 hours ago

          It’s a principled take. There are plenty of articles showing it’s Trump’s base that’s receiving a significant portion of injury from his orders and policies. Unless they feel the pain — without democratic intervention to cast blame — these people will never change their minds. They may not in any event, but it has to affect them. It’s either these hard lessons, or we keep spiraling to civil war.

          Learn from history.

          The privileged voters tried to save trump’s base from itself, but what do they know:

          https://www.ft.com/content/6de668c7-64e9-4196-b2c5-9ceca966fe3f

          The results also show poorer and less-educated voters now think Republicans best represent them — a reversal from 12 years ago, when Democrat Barack Obama was president. After a deep-dive into the data, here are five takeaways. Democratic support depends on high-income voters Economic realignment has been under way for some time, but hastened in this election. The Democratic party now appears to be the party of high-income voters, not those with low incomes.

    • sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      177·
      11 hours ago

      Honestly when they resist him, he just goes around saying his amazing, super brilliant, swam draining, anti corruption plans are being hindered by evil corrupt democrats. By stepping back they get blame for doing nothing but Trump gets full blame for the way he manages the country.

      The one interesting thing to look for in next election is whether it can be rigged or not.

      If yes then that’s the end of US as democracy

      If no then Trump could potentially become a sitting duck for the rest of his presidency.

      • emergence_trailblazer@sh.itjust.works
        15·
        10 hours ago

        I understand what you mean, but it anyway sounds like a bad strategy. How much suffering just for the hope that things will resolve themselves in the end ?

        More over, if he has free hands, I strongly doubt that the next elections in the US will be fair.

        Other comments here complete my view: blaming minorities, lack of good quality information etc…

        • DoubleSpace@lemm.eeEnglish
          25·
          10 hours ago

          There is no good move to make. The problem is that we can’t even agree on the least bad options to slow it down.