It’s all about perception. You can point out that gas prices are dropping, true. Eggs are down, true, milk cost less true. But if people’s perception is that ‘things’ just cost more then none of that matters. Housing is too expensive as are cars. Drug price can be crippling especially for older people on fixed incomes. Clothing, least according to my wife, is way up from last year.
Bottom line it doesn’t matter who caused it, it matters who is in office and are they fixing it. Rather than doing his usual, “everything I touch is perfect” schtick, Trump would be better served to acknowledge the concern and place the blame where it rightly belongs. Then explain how his policies are making it better, but that it’s going to take time to clean up Biden’s mess and that electing the same democrats in 2026 who got us in this mess won’t help.
This is going to be a challenge for Republicans next year. The democrats think they have a winning issue and they, with the help of the media will do everything they can to make it a winning one.
“Housing is too expensive as are cars.“
Cars could be the thing that really pushes hard economically. People have given up looking at the total cost and only care now about the monthly. On top of that they rollover unpaid prior loans into new car loans. On top of that cars are WILDLY high tech and can be extremely expensive to repair. But people NEED cars to function economically. When they are underwater on a 3 or 4 yr old car and it develops a 6 or eight thousand dollar problem…what do they do?