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Showing Original Post only (View all)Regretful Trump voters say their lives are 'getting worse by the day'. (FAFO) [View all]
Adam LynchFebruary 14, 2026 |
https://www.alternet.org/trump-voters-regret/
Follow-up interviews with Trumpsupporters one year later reveal a souring on the administrations policies and not for just one reason.
Inflation, immigration, and Epstein are all in the mix, but there's a giant mosaic of disappointments, reports Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell, while reviewing voters comments in a Saturday podcast.
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I see more people coming through the pantry lines than ever before, and every month it's new people, so it just tells me that there's greater need, said another. The economy is not good. The job market's not good. The cost of living is sky high. It's really hard to make ends meet for people and that just kind of overshadows everything else. And you couple that with healthcare costs and insurance costs and things like that and people just can't get ahead.
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Yet anther disgruntled Trump voter complained that the way Trump talks to people with whom he doesn't agree is just horrible. Its probably the worst of any of our presidents weve dealt with, said the respondent. I feel like the longer he's in office, the more we're going to plummet to not being a good community or quality country at all, period.
