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Trump and his fascists deserve most of the blame, but I fear that liberals won't learn from this. Realpolitik is bullshit. When you promise to help people but then sell us out to lobbyists and the donor class decade after decade after decade, then people lose all faith in institutions. Facts don't matter because those facts were used to gaslight time and time again.
The Democrats expended a ton of political capital bailing out the teamsters pensions and they didn't even earn an endorsement from them.
Arizona had a ton of money and jobs pumped into it with the CHIPS act and it went for Trump.
Delivering on promises and improving people's material conditions didn't move the needle at all.
Voters don't care about policy, they care about the President being a charismatic man who reminds them of their dad.
They didn't improve people's material conditions. They did some things that may help in several years, but did fuck all for the suffering people were feeling. They went even further to deny those feelings to people's face.
I guess you're right, if you're a teamster whose pension just got saved, that's something you won't appreciate for a dozen or so years.
So clearly, stuff like that is a crapshoot and will never be attempted again. The only thing politicians will do is subsidize purchases for goods and services.
No national healthcare insurance because people won't appreciate that until they're sick. So just send out checks for 600 dollars to make things a little easier on people, it's way cheaper too.