Posted on 07/29/2025 6:25:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The economy is roaring, so why is Trump’s approval not soaring?
When asked to identify their station in life, 31% of Americans said they consider themselves working class, 12% lower class, and 2% upper class, according to the Pew Research Center. That leaves a majority of 54%, or more than 180 million people, who self-identify as middle-class or upper-middle-class. The political ramifications of this are self-evident. Presidential candidates have always sought to appeal to this broad swath of the electorate more than any other demographic. Most recently, Kamala Harris famously and repeatedly tried — but failed — to convince voters that she “grew up in a middle-class home.” Joe Biden consistently promised to build the economy “from the bottom up and the middle out,” whatever that means. On the flip side, Donald Trump was elected twice on the strength of middle-class voters, 52% of whom pulled the lever for him in 2024 and 50% in 2016. In contrast, he won just 42% of that vote in his controversial defeat in 2020.
Indeed, many a president has been elected and thrived in office by successfully convincing the middle class that he has their best interests at heart. And that is why the latest economic metrics should be very heartening to Trump, particularly when it comes to real-wage growth. Americans are less interested in macroeconomic indicators and forecasts than they are in their own financial well-being, particularly their prospects for earning more money going forward.
Middle-Class Boom or Bust?
A new report from the Treasury Department reveals that, since Trump assumed office six months ago, middle-class and blue-collar workers are experiencing real-wage gains (that is, earnings adjusted for inflation) not seen in nearly 60 years. Average hourly earnings for middle-class workers rose 1.7% from December 2024 to May 2025, almost twice the rate...
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As we move through the decade towards 2030 the the sectors that will experience job loss, will be the nonessential public & private “bloat economy” that has materialized with 65 years of globalism & deficit spending.
The chopping block over the next 20 years will be enormous, but new producers will emerge and hold sway over a prosperous economic future for all Americans.
It’s early but I like where we’re headed.
The number one thing that will lead to a demise in democrat and their urban and college town control.
Is to cut their government income and change the environmentalism that has killed rural America.
When this happens and it will...... America will launch a 20 to 30 year economic cycle that will be one for the history books
Not so sure about this, barely getting by is more like it as my Dollar buys about half these days..It was much better under Trump’s 1st term.
That’s cause prices that were raised under Biden have stopped going up under Trump see gas for example. That isn’t going to cut prices to pre 2020 levels unless there is massive oversupply of something such as eggs now which have gone down price wise for like 4 months in a row
Well eggs have dropped some as fuel prices have some but wages are stagnant and the Dollar is not keeping up even though they claim inflation is supposedly flattened. Guess the question voters in the Mid-Terms will ask “Am I better off now vs 4 years go?”
I guess if you lost 60% of your blood and now lost another 5%, then it’s ‘ok’.
I know there’s not much that can be done to undo biden’s disaster reawlly though.
Wages are actually up 4.4 percent speaking for myself eggs are literally 2.99 a dozen at the local store and gas is also down the fact it isn’t near 2 bucks everywhere has more to do with the gas taxes imposed by certain states. Take Pennsylvania for instance gas is 2.89 a gallon and that’s with the second highest gas tax in the nation at 58 cents a gallon. So Trump can lower the price of a barrel of oil but it’s up to the individual states and the taxes they charge for energy.
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