I voted for Gary Johnson in 2016, mainly because I didn't think Trump had a chance and I didn't really approve of his policies. In 2020 I voted for Trump out of pure spite against legacy media outlets outright lying about Trump and crafting a false narrative with Russian Collusion for 3 years. In 2024 I'm going to vote for Trump again, n…
I voted for Gary Johnson in 2016, mainly because I didn't think Trump had a chance and I didn't really approve of his policies. In 2020 I voted for Trump out of pure spite against legacy media outlets outright lying about Trump and crafting a false narrative with Russian Collusion for 3 years. In 2024 I'm going to vote for Trump again, not so much because of legacy media, they're hopeless but rather because things were better under Trump with inflation and basically with everything else with the economy. On top of that, a vote for Trump is a vote against the entire corrupt system we're seeing with the legal system being turned against him in a way I can so plainly see, Hillary and the payment for the Steele Dossier is the SAME EXACT thing Trump did but somehow she's avoiding prosecution for it AND the FEC fined her campaign for it while the FEC didn't even fine Trump for the payment to Daniels.
I thought something similar in 2020: the reason to vote for Trump was really to teach a lesson to the media that their efforts, their constant bias and "putting a thumb on the scale," was counterproductive. Instead, the media "won" in 2020, helping Biden's election, and now most of them scoff at the very idea of "journalistic integrity."
On this point: " I'm going to vote for Trump again, not so much because of legacy media, they're hopeless but rather because things were better under Trump with inflation and basically with everything else with the economy."
Trump inherited a decades long low-inflation economy, and one that was on a near also 6+ year recovery glide from the depths of The Great Recession of 2008. He inherited the easy money policy from the Fed, an unemployment rate that was already under 4% by the time he took Office and still falling, a steady GDP growth average with also low inflation, wage increases that finally began to catch up to job growth, etc. There's no economic trend that indicates that Trump's Presidency or "policies" created any different trajectory or impact than the trends he inherited, other than the 2017 tax cuts blowing up the debt and perhaps some of his tariff/trade war policies exacerbating the post-COVID supply chain/inflation woes (also, manufacturing was in an official recession by 2019 Q3 as it was - some attributed to the increased cost of raw steel caused by Trump's steel tariffs that yet did not also create any new steel manufacturing jobs/plants domestically but did raise the costs for pretty much the entire supply chain dependent on raw steel).
You're voting for the conditions that Trump was lucky to preside over for the first 3 years of his term (assuming you are giving him the COVID pass for the final year) - there's no indication or reason to believe that if Trump was re-elected in 2020 that the negatives you and other voters are placing on Biden wrt to inflation would have went any differently - Trump was also promoting another big round of stimulus in fall 2020, in fact he blamed Mitch McConnell for losing the Georgia run-off for not passing a bigger stimulus round after November 2020 (and not, of course, his own erratic and insane behavior over his election loss post-November 2020). The rest of the global COVID economy factors would have been the same no matter who won in 2020, and if Trump had won his re-election would have presided over an inflationary economy regardless.
Voting for Trump in 2024 to get back the 2019 economy that Trump had very little to do with in the first place is going to make a lot of voters very disappointed, at best, IMO, that will also come with a hefty price tag on it even if Trump is granted another glide path into the already trending deflationary economy by Jan 2025 (that he will, of course, take full credit for, sigh), higher if a second Trump Presidency makes inflation worse (which, if you read his actually proposed policy agenda for his second term, will be very likely!)
I voted for Gary Johnson in 2016, mainly because I didn't think Trump had a chance and I didn't really approve of his policies. In 2020 I voted for Trump out of pure spite against legacy media outlets outright lying about Trump and crafting a false narrative with Russian Collusion for 3 years. In 2024 I'm going to vote for Trump again, not so much because of legacy media, they're hopeless but rather because things were better under Trump with inflation and basically with everything else with the economy. On top of that, a vote for Trump is a vote against the entire corrupt system we're seeing with the legal system being turned against him in a way I can so plainly see, Hillary and the payment for the Steele Dossier is the SAME EXACT thing Trump did but somehow she's avoiding prosecution for it AND the FEC fined her campaign for it while the FEC didn't even fine Trump for the payment to Daniels.
I thought something similar in 2020: the reason to vote for Trump was really to teach a lesson to the media that their efforts, their constant bias and "putting a thumb on the scale," was counterproductive. Instead, the media "won" in 2020, helping Biden's election, and now most of them scoff at the very idea of "journalistic integrity."
On this point: " I'm going to vote for Trump again, not so much because of legacy media, they're hopeless but rather because things were better under Trump with inflation and basically with everything else with the economy."
Trump inherited a decades long low-inflation economy, and one that was on a near also 6+ year recovery glide from the depths of The Great Recession of 2008. He inherited the easy money policy from the Fed, an unemployment rate that was already under 4% by the time he took Office and still falling, a steady GDP growth average with also low inflation, wage increases that finally began to catch up to job growth, etc. There's no economic trend that indicates that Trump's Presidency or "policies" created any different trajectory or impact than the trends he inherited, other than the 2017 tax cuts blowing up the debt and perhaps some of his tariff/trade war policies exacerbating the post-COVID supply chain/inflation woes (also, manufacturing was in an official recession by 2019 Q3 as it was - some attributed to the increased cost of raw steel caused by Trump's steel tariffs that yet did not also create any new steel manufacturing jobs/plants domestically but did raise the costs for pretty much the entire supply chain dependent on raw steel).
You're voting for the conditions that Trump was lucky to preside over for the first 3 years of his term (assuming you are giving him the COVID pass for the final year) - there's no indication or reason to believe that if Trump was re-elected in 2020 that the negatives you and other voters are placing on Biden wrt to inflation would have went any differently - Trump was also promoting another big round of stimulus in fall 2020, in fact he blamed Mitch McConnell for losing the Georgia run-off for not passing a bigger stimulus round after November 2020 (and not, of course, his own erratic and insane behavior over his election loss post-November 2020). The rest of the global COVID economy factors would have been the same no matter who won in 2020, and if Trump had won his re-election would have presided over an inflationary economy regardless.
Voting for Trump in 2024 to get back the 2019 economy that Trump had very little to do with in the first place is going to make a lot of voters very disappointed, at best, IMO, that will also come with a hefty price tag on it even if Trump is granted another glide path into the already trending deflationary economy by Jan 2025 (that he will, of course, take full credit for, sigh), higher if a second Trump Presidency makes inflation worse (which, if you read his actually proposed policy agenda for his second term, will be very likely!)