Subject: Re: A reminder from 2020
"...unsatisfied with the direction of the economy, driven largely by a rapid post-Covid increase in goods prices (especially necessary goods) and home prices, exacerbated by high interest rates. That, coupled with dissatisfaction over border and immigration policy and a gradual shift of non-college educated working class voters towards voting affinity based on educational attainment (and increasingly gender) rather than race..."

no, these are largely gop talking points that poll as popular grievances and are useful for the appearance of MAGA politics as normative.
the giveaway is the sheer lack of a logical chain of actions which leads to possible solution by any objective measure.
most exasperating is the idea that a defective authoritarian failed businessman, and his wealthy cronies like musk, will make life better for the lesser educated working class (i guess because his track record shows that is what he really lives for ?!?)

if there is any explanation, then it does lie partly in stupidity, as have many such occurrences throughout history described by noted surgeon\financist\historian bill bernstein :
https://bookshop.org/p/books/t...