A new set of Times/Siena polls, including one with The Philadelphia Inquirer, reveal an erosion of support for the president among young and nonwhite voters upset about the economy and Gaza.
This level of misinformation should be removed from lemmy. I get that free speech is a thing that needs to be upheld, but to a certain extent- it shouldn’t be used to try and convert people into morons.
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This level of misinformation should be removed from lemmy. I get that free speech is a thing that needs to be upheld, but to a certain extent- it shouldn’t be used to try and convert people into morons.
Trump is a populist when it comes to public statements, he’s an elitist when it comes to actual policy.
You don’t have to look any further than his tax cuts to see that. Who got them? The elites. Who suffered? Everyone else.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/the-2017-trump-tax-law-was-skewed-to-the-rich-expensive-and-failed-to-deliver
Or how he specifically engineered things like military flights to Scotland specifically to benefit his own property there:
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/air-force-trump-scottish-resort-1493624
That’s banana republic level elitist corruption, not populism.
His speeches? Pure populism. But his speeches were not his policy, well, until January 6th, then they overlapped.