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After backing Trump, low-income voters hope he doesn’t slash their benefits
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it bothers me that so many commenters are excited about the idea of people suffering.
I'm not excited, but I lost all empathy for fellow Americans who voted Trump this election. They will get what they voted for.
I mean, this. The only way any average American is going to benefit from the Trump admin is if they are very active in the stock market and know what to look for. Most of the people that voted for Trump are barely making ends meet, and they're going to be in for a rude awakening when the housing market crashes in 1-2 years, tariffs have driven up the prices of everything, and social safety nets have been eliminated.
I voted for the competent adult, who would have done things to benefit 99% of Americans, but others wanted the tantrum baby. The market is going to go up, because taxes and regulations will be more lax, and also, that's what it tends to do, and I'll personally benefit profusely from it.
I'm not a Trump supporter. He's a fraud, idiot, and a national disgrace. But I have extensive savings, retirement accounts, stocks holdings, etc, so I'm going to benefit. That's all that Trump ever does, is give more to the people that already have it, because those are the only people he interacts with.
His struggles are with getting lenders and ideal interest rates on multi million dollar loans, and on trying to shield his assets from taxes, because good forbid he pay his fair share on the obscene amount of wealth he receives from a trust fund, and never actually earned.
If those aren't problems that you have, and you voted for Trump then you're going to have a rude awakening in store. Unfortunately you dragged the rest of us into this mess with you.
They took a risk because the economy was already good
https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/the-economy-has-been-great-under-biden-thats-why-trump-won
I think it's okay for them to learn what they voted for. Learning from their mistakes is the only way to prevent them from happening in the future.