Unpopular opinion: blaming the voters is counterproductive. It's important to understand why they voted (or abstained) the way they did.

Yes, some percentage of voters are indeed racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. But hypothetically, another percentage are people who were unhappy because of economic reasons and felt they were presented with two bad options:

• an unreliable candidate who acknowledged they were unhappy
• an unknown candidate who said they were wrong and should just be happy

Is this hypothesis correct? I don't know, but just assuming the voters are ignorant, or just saying that leopards will eat their faces, isn't productive.

People who are upset about high prices and stagnating income do have a point. People who think that prices will go down because they were lower last time Trump was president fail to understand cause and effect at a fundamental level and have me thinking some undemocratic thoughts.

I guess they really wanted a recession so they are going to get one.

The economy is good but all the money is going to the rich. “Quick, let’s elect the rich guy who campaigned with the other really rich guy to help us get our fair share.”

Democrats need to understand that due to our complete shit education, most Americans don't understand how a budget works much less the nuance of economic indicators.

It shouldn't have been hard to understand that all of the median income earners did get a wage increase of did not keep up with the massive inflation cause by Trump's botched response and price gouging and talk to it directly.

I know we made fun of VP elect couch fucker when he made that video of egg prices but again, Americans aren't bright or observant. They just got told that eggs are four bucks a dozen, most Americans will latch on and remember that yeah, egg prices were high so that means they're high right now, despite just having been at the store earlier in the week. Democrat should have been heavily pushing back on that, but they didn't. The lie is now truth.

This does a good job of pointing out how the economic models that show things are going well are outdated and inaccurate.

All the folks who claimed that statistics should be enough to convince people the economy is good should read it to see how wrong they are.

So let me get this straight.. telling people who are struggling financially and can barely make ends meet 'No you aren't! You're just too stupid and uncultured to understand these numbers!' doesn't get you their vote and even can make them vote for the other guy!? Who would have thunk!

Biden got inflation under control. He passed the CHIPS act. Average wages rose. Dems want to raise the minimum wage. Unions had a renaissance during Biden’s tenure.

Trump voters are lying. They voted for Trump because they are racist and misogynist and they mistakenly think he will lower their taxes.

Those that sat out the election were the real problem.

Trump voters when reading this article:

I’m angry about how bad the economy is, so I’m going to vote to make it substantially worse.

"Economists argue that Republican nostalgia for the economy under Trump’s first term is largely misguided (https://apnews.com/article/trump-economy-biden-election-president-e3a153c9b0c615ea6e0f2afb91cdc785). However, the GOP’s pessimism over current economic conditions resonated with voters." (who were wrong, and will suffer from #47's policies economically and in many other ways - I hope I'm wrong)

Historically the economy fairs better under democrats than repubs. I'll be happily surprised if this is not the case. And, like so may others I'm looking for ways to spend money between now and Jan 17, in the hopes that I won't have to spend as much when the tariffs raise the price of things. Hmm, what will I need to spend money on now, so I don't have to spend any for the next 4-6, or more, years. smh.

If they really cared about fixing the economy they'd be progressives.

Every bad thing their own president does to them is justice. Every bad thing he does to others is injustice.

There’s a big fucking difference in my mind between voting for Trump and not voting. I know the electoral math makes those choices roughly equivalent, but in terms of personal motivations, there is a difference.

This is, to be frank, a big step in viewpoint for me. Before the election, I was all “staying home is a vote for Trump”. I was doing my best to be pragmatic. But I cannot deny that the DNC shit the bed SUPER HARD here. And thus, I cannot deny the fact that there’s a BIG difference between “I’ll vote for the party that’s gonna fuck me over more rapidly” and “I don’t want to vote for either party that’s been fucking me over for close to two decades”.

There's not one single reason when the election went the way it did, just like there is not one demographic that made the election go the way it did.
But the argument "It wasn't the economy. The economy is great, just look at these numbers [published by the government]!" is just politicians falling for their own rhetoric.
The US governments have been skewing official statistics for decades. I've lived through decades of "Oh, X is fine" when my lived experience has been quite the contrary.
I suspect that a significant source of D's sitting this election out is similar to a lot of R's thoughts: "You've ignored us for decades telling us that things are getting better, but they never do. We're done. Burn it down."
Maybe they don't expect things to get better after this election, but maybe their hoping that spreading the suffering will prompt more people to demand change as well.
Just a thought.