As the above graph shows, real wages rose under Trump’s presidency, and were higher at the end of Trump’s term than they were at the end of Q3 – just over a month before voters went to the polls, last week.
And that doesn’t even capture the withdrawal of Covid era cash transfers, or the exploding cost of existing houses (only new houses are counted towards inflation, and they have been moving in the opposite direction), or the increased interest rates which new buyers are paying on those homes, and which Americans are paying on record levels of credit card debt.
When voters said their number one concern was the economy that’s what they meant. They’re suffering.
But even in defeat, Democrats and their cheerleaders in the media have continued talking over voters, insisting they are imagining it. The Guardian recently published an opinion piece by Oliver Hall called “I spent hours trying to persuade US voters to choose Harris not Trump. I know why she lost.”
But either he’s lying, or he does not, in fact, know why she lost. His article paints a picture of an ignorant brainwashed voter, imagining problems which do not exist. He writes “Wages may well be rising at all levels, but everyday inflation was more discernible to voters.” but inflation is not subjectively “more discernible” to voters, it objectively outpaced nominal wage growth during the Biden administration, leading to reduced real wages.
Later in the same article he says “Democrats tried to tell the story of average wages being higher”, but that wasn’t true, Oliver. Wages, in real terms, were lower than they were after Trump left office. But the idea that he or his handed-down talking points could be wrong, and the people he was talking to could be right, doesn’t seem to have crossed his mind. Instead he says “people just seemed to believe Trump more often than they believed Harris” – It’s those stupid voters, out there in Dumbistan Midwesterfuck, Central Flyover, who are living in a fantasy world, disconnected from the reality of the American economy, not this 12 year old (or whatever), who was apparently phone banking for the Harris Walz ticket from across the Atlantic.
On CNN, overpaid pundits continue to insist “The Biden economy was a good economy, you may disagree with me, but, statistically it was!” That depends, of course, on which statistics you look at. Doesn’t it?
Falling wages? Sounds like a you problem.
There are plenty of other examples.
A defensible and honest line would have been that Trump’s policies created the inflation problem, which Biden had to deal with. The graph I opened with supports this, showing that real wages started to drop (inflation started to go wild) in the final months of Trump’s presidency, and the decline stopped and reversed during Biden’s term. Biden, and Bidenworld, did make that point earlier in his term. But as the vote approached, they figured this was too complex and reverted to a strategy of saying the economy is good, and if you can’t see that, it’s because you’re a big fat stupid racist idiot. Your failures are your own. Did you know I am friends with Beyoncé?
As usual, the image of the ignorant voter, ruled by their dumb emotions, is used by a failed caste of pseudo-elites to mask their incompetence.
