The president’s scramble to win back voter affection after negative polls has led him to spew incoherent proposals
“A vote for Trump means your groceries will be cheaper,” Donald Trump promised Americans on the eve of the presidential election. During the US president’s first year back in office, however, food prices rose faster than they did during Joe Biden’s last.
Facing negative poll numbers, Trump is taking a tack that few Republicans have dared contemplate before: spewing out a rain of often incoherent proposals to signal he feels voters’ pain, in order to recapture their affection.
History suggests it might work. Yet, a year’s worth of policy pronouncements for the working class matched with policies to serve the rich may have exhausted voters’ goodwill toward the Trump administration.
Trump’s promise to lower energy costs hasn’t panned out. Household energy prices have risen 7.3% so far on his watch, more than twice as much as during Biden’s last year in office. His promise to revitalize the auto industry isn’t performing as planned. And he hasn’t gotten anywhere near “cutting the cost of a new home in half”.
