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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(133,173 posts)
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 04:29 PM 6 hrs ago

Low-income MAGA voters 'duped' by Trump are about to face their worst economy yet: analysis

Inflation is on the rise thanks to President Donald Trump, and his own voters are about to get hit with the worst of it.

The New Statesman reported Thursday that MAGA world will be the ones that face the misery of a faltering economy.

Trump's war with the Federal Reserve kicked in to high gear over the weekend after Chairman Jerome Powell revealed he'd been subpoenaed by a grand jury for an investigation. The probe threatens "a criminal indictment," Powell said in a video statement.

The Fed's "rate-setting board alone employs several hundred researchers, almost all of whom have a PhD in economics," business reporter Will Dunn explained. "Their job is to come up with one of the world’s most important numbers: the Fed funds rate, which is effectively the price of money in the world’s most powerful economy, and which affects the prices of commodities and financial instruments around the world."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/low-income-maga-voters-duped-by-trump-are-about-to-face-their-worst-economy-yet-analysis/ar-AA1UhzAs

They'll just blame it on the libs.

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Low-income MAGA voters 'duped' by Trump are about to face their worst economy yet: analysis (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 6 hrs ago OP
You're right, he'll use it to keep them angry. underpants 6 hrs ago #1
They're too dumb oldtime dfl_er 6 hrs ago #2

underpants

(195,107 posts)
1. You're right, he'll use it to keep them angry.
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 04:34 PM
6 hrs ago

The problem for Trump is that his team sees inflation in the "abstract." All of their money is in property, cash and other assets and there is so much of it that their spending barely impacts their lives. That's not the case for Trump voters, the report explained.

"The people who feel inflation most seriously are the people who have the least disposable income – in the US, the bottom quartile of earners. The majority of low-income households in the US voted for Trump in 2024," wrote the Statesman.

The report closed by promising that Trump "is preparing not only to dupe these low-income voters with the illusion of a functioning economy, but to make them pay for it.

oldtime dfl_er

(7,160 posts)
2. They're too dumb
Fri Jan 16, 2026, 04:41 PM
6 hrs ago

to connect the dots -- the poorer they are, the richer don the con and his buddies are. DUH!!!

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