the policies they're referring to here are high interest rates, and to that I say "do they, though?" because the Fed hiked rates which fucked over homebuyers even worse than they already were and prices didn't come down AT ALL. so maybe what voters hate is policies that punish consumers instead of the corporations that are greedily raising prices in the first place.

when have high interest rates ever LOWERED PRICES? slowed price increases, perhaps, but I don't think I have ever seen actual prices go DOWN in all my 40+ years on this earth, and certainly not because interest rates went up. if I've learned anything it's that capitalists expect people to just take on more debt to keep padding their profit margin.

pandemic relief packages kept people housed and businesses open. that boost to unemployment was the first time in over a decade that my family had a somewhat comfortable standard of living. that capitalists respond to people making ends meet with grabby hands like we're not allowed to not be poor is not my fault.

remember that the last time we had a "sudden labor shortage" (because Covid killed over a million Americans), we had the Great Resignation and wages jumped and companies responded by - say it with me - RAISING PRICES.

also Trump's just being racist as usual, there's no economic strategy to this.

lol no. deregulation doesn't cause capitalists to "pass the savings on to consumers," it causes them to hoard the profits. again, capitalists will never lower actual prices - why would they? they've already got you paying this much, making you pay less only eats into their profit margins and executive compensation.