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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.

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

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

Cult is gonna cult.

No shit

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.

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.

Too bad he can't go silent permanently.

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.

"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

Here is my well reasoned and thoughtful response:

Duh.

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.

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

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

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