They Just Love Him No Matter What

Created
Tue, 14/05/2024 - 05:00
Updated
Tue, 14/05/2024 - 05:00
Nothing can shake them Here was Trump’s economy in 2020. Massive unemployment, food lines, tens of thousands of deaths with no end in sight. He only cares about himself. And they love him for it. They love him so, so much Michael Tomasky took a look at this issue today and it’s mind-boggling: Politico and Morning Consult asked respondents a series of questions about all the major economic legislation Biden has signed. Majorities know little or nothing at all about the infrastructure bill, the CHIPS act, the American Rescue Plan, and the Inflation Reduction Act. And get this: While 40 percent said Biden has done more than Trump on infrastructure, 37 percent said Trump had done more. In January, NBC found that Trump has a 22-point advantage over Biden on the question of whom voters trust more with the economy—up 15 points from the same poll in 2020.   How can this possibly be? Fine, we know that most people pay scant attention to politics. But even scant attention should produce some knowledge. I pay scant attention to pop culture events aimed at people younger than I am, but even I know that Drake and Kendrick Lamar are fighting and that Kendrick appears to have public opinion on his side. Stuff seeps through. It’s not just Fox, unfortunately: As for the mainstream, “liberal” media, they’ll report on these things, but they’ll usually do so in a way that gives plenty of space to views from Republicans like Rubio. Read, for example, this Associated Press…