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Truly, this reporting is valid and important. Also, this is so totally predictable that all I can do is sarcastically clutch my pearls.

People keep expecting Trump's followers to suddenly wake up and realize they've been scammed when they see what he actually does in office. Most of their support for him is based on obvious lies and they have seen how he really behaved as president. Either they know he's been lying and don't care or they have deluded themselves into ignoring reality altogether. Watching him stab them repeatedly in the back in not going to change their opinions. And if he hurts people they don't like badly enough, they will still consider that a win.

Of course he has. He has neither a plan nor a chance to deliver here. All he can do is keeping as quiet as possible about it in hope that his MAGA sponge brains forget this was a thing he promised.

Too bad he can't go silent permanently.

Despite two years of constant finger-pointing at the Biden administration for rising grocery prices that were actually decreasing during that time

The prices have not been decreasing, the rate of increase has been decreasing. But grocery prices were and are still going up. Source: the article you linked.

It would be ironic if Trump actually "Made America Great Again" by being the direct cause of his base rising up against him, the billionaire class and the current status quo leading to systemic reform and a more equitable society.

Here is my well reasoned and thoughtful response:

Duh.

Demagogue: a political leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational argument.

I think his plan was deflation or something and I don't think it made any sense

He spent his entire campaign saying how expensive things were and his plan to fix is was to raise prices on everything. Not sure what they were expecting.

I mean, no surprise. All of his policies last time were for the wealthy. But more importantly, all of the things Elan is planning to cut are going to hurt the poor and they didn't say they were going to give any of that money to people, just that they were going to cut the deficit. If running the country like a business, you never cut income, even if you cut expenses. Businesses with monopolies keep the profits from reduced expenses, not pass them on to customers, that would be dumb.

What a ridiculous article. Trump's not even in office yet.

And I'm sorry, but groceries have gone up the last 4 years, and idc what any graph tells me, it doesn't matter if I'm still paying the same high amount for groceries. No idea how the data is laid out or what data was included, but reality is what I hand over to buy the food I need to survive. And it's too damn high.

If Americans suddenly realize they've been taken for fools, that's why they have their precious 2nd Amendment.

They always bring it up when the issue of gun control comes up for any reason, but they never actually use the 2nd Amendment for what it was original intended, incl. removing dangerous leaders. Trump is the first true, crystal-clear use case.

That must mean most Americans still haven't understood they've been took, or they really dig fascism even at their own expense.

Cult is gonna cult.

"How could we predict he'd betray us like that?" says people who've spent literal decades watching person in question be incredibly dishonest and slef-serving

It’s almost as if it was a siren call to have the plebs vote for him.

No shit

MAGAt near me that always had multiple batshit crazy trump flags at his house, and still did, up until his house burned down a few days back. T&P's homie. Karma can be like that.

Of course. Otherwise his crowd would expect him to fix stuff.

And in 1... 2... 3... 'he's hurting the wrong people'

His only comment on grocery prices was during his interview with Time magazine for his man of the year article in which he admitted that there isn’t much he can do to bring grocery prices back down to the levels of 2019. Economically, the only thing that will do that is a strong recession that no one wants.

This is what folks don't seem to understand: prices only go back to where they were five or six years ago if there's a recession, and a severe one at that. The Fed is trying to get inflation under control, but even if they're successful, that doesn't mean prices will come down, that only means prices won't go up as quickly. Getting inflation under control means prices go up 2% per year instead of 2.5% or 3%. Trump can't change any of this, and many of the policies he says he plans to implement would likely make it more difficult to get inflation down to the Fed's 2% target.

TLDR, shit ain't getting any less expensive unless there's a pretty bad recession, and Trump can't change that.