Does nostalgia favor Trump?

[SarahD]

People remember the Trump presidency as a success, but rate Biden lower. As the article points out, we tend to remember the good and forget the bad. So Trump's inept handling of the covid pandemic seems not so bad now that covid is fading. I think it simply illustrates that Americans pay no attention to much of anything.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/28/politics/cnn-poll-trump-biden-matchup/index.html

[Orrex]

1. Nostalgia, or the nonstop pro-Trump/anti-Biden media barrage for the past 8 years

[rurallib]

5. corporate media driven anti-Biden barrage might I add?

as both traditional and social media is concentrated into fewer and fewer hands in the US and around the world.

[Orrex]

9. Absolutely correct

Yay capitalism!

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. What 'good' can anyone name??

[brooklynite]

11. Low mortgage and interest rates...

Job growth (excluding the COVID period)

[Ping Tung]

3. The only "good" Trump has done is cause me to add to my 2nd languuage: profanity.

[DFW]

4. No, but maybe amnesia favors Trump

He handled everything ineptly (last reports from Melania are, admittedly, incomplete). The budget, foreign policy, not just covid.

To say that he handled anything with skill or finesse is to rewrite the history of his presidency.

Just because you gouged out an eye in a fit of insanity, that does not mean you have to gouge out the other eye just because four years have passed since you lost the first one.

[Aristus]

6. People remember the Trump Presidency as a success?

What people?

Buford and Lurlene up in Squalor Holler? The demented red necks out in East Cornpone?

Sure.

Just not anybody in possession of a functioning brain.

[Rebl2]

8. I certainly

don’t remember it as being successful 😵?💫

[Emile]

7. Two years into his presidency he crashed the economy.

[kimbutgar]

10. I just turned in my tv and it was on cnn

T#$&p 49% and Biden 43% I thought this is bs and changed the channel. The only positive was hearing Jasmine Crockett push back on the right wingers.

The media wants the horse race and insanity of the orange menace years! Little do they realize they will be silenced and become what George Orwell concept of big brother censorship if the orange a hole returns to the presidency. That said I think his dementia will be his undoing between now and November.

[Blue Owl]

12. Mental illness certainly does

[Initech]

13. Are republicans out of their damn minds? Yes.

I mean in 2020, he completely ignored COVID until it was too late. We were locked in our homes, he told us to inject bleach and said that the virus was caused by lizard people. Does anyone not remember that? Oh yeah they were too busy calling it a hoax.

[andym]

14. Inflation/interest rates in October/November are key

according to that poll-
"Biden’s approval ratings for the economy (34%) and inflation (29%) remain starkly negative, as voters say economic concerns are more important to them when choosing a candidate than they were in each of the past two presidential contests. In the new poll, 65% of registered voters call the economy extremely important to their vote for president, compared with 40% who felt that way in early 2020 and 46% who said the same at roughly this point in 2016. Those voters who say the economy is deeply important break heavily for Trump in a matchup against Biden, 62% to 30%."

BUT IN REALITY

the economy has been strong: GDP and unemployment are very good.

HOWEVER

inflation + high interest rates finished off Jimmy Carter and actually almost finished off Ronnie Reagan (1983 polling).

the HOPE
inflation is low enough for the Fed to start cutting interest rates

[Conjuay]

15. try nausea, not nostalgia.

I mean, come on now…