What they say and what they really think

Created
Sat, 16/09/2023 - 00:30
Updated
Sat, 16/09/2023 - 00:30
Just what are voters buying? “Repetition is really important. And so is repetition.” Donald Trump knows the value of repetition. Debunking his lies has no stopping power on his relentless repeating of them. It’s a habit that the press has come to accept from Trump and from Republicans when they repeat lies, but sees as futile, even pathetic, when Democrats repeat facts. USA Today: Linda Muñoz is scared about the economy. She dipped into her emergency savings this year. And she doesn’t believe President Joe Biden feels her pain. The retired teacher from Channelview, Texas, worries about paying $4 for cereal and $3.38 for gasoline in her state. “According to him, everything’s perfect,” said Muñoz, a Republican. “He just doesn’t live in reality.” As Biden tries to sell Americans on an economic rebound, most Americans aren’t buying it, according to an exclusive poll from the Suffolk University Sawyer Business School and USA TODAY that reveals major concerns about the state of the economy and little hope of people’s outlook improving. What’s worse for the incumbent president, Americans say they trust Donald Trump − not Biden − to fix it. The Google link headline is “Biden is selling an improving economy. Americans don’t buy it.” The subtext is that when the president repeats upbeat news about Bidenomics he is failing to connect with Real Americans™. Maybe he ought to stop (before his message sinks in). Would Trump? People think what they think and feel what they feel. Until they think and feel something else. One…