Everything's 'too expensive': Trump voters trash president's long game

Bulwark keeps doing surveys of Biden voters who switched their vote to president Donald Trump in the 2024 election and the news keeps turning up angst.

“Lots of things are expensive right now. Like, we're looking at health insurance tripling for the same services last year. And that's from health, dental, vision, all the above,” said one young woman. “Even car insurance needs a cap, if you ask me. But yeah, it's pretty expensive. And the pay didn't increase, but the bills did.”

“I've seen things like SNAP cuts that are really hurting poor people,” said another former Biden voter who went Trump. “I'm concerned about that. I mean, I have a daughter. She’s been out of college for almost a year and can't find a job in her field. So, I’m especially concerned about entry level jobs and also concerned about this war, if it drags on. And the stuff with ICE is very concerning.”

Other young voters griped along the same lines regarding the economy, with more complaining new workers are bring kicked to the wayside in the Trump economy.

“I have a lot of people I know who have bachelor [degrees] who have been working retail for the past couple of years,” said a respondent. “And I also think just the dividedness, like, we can't really be friends with the other side. It's just petty, just there's a lot of tension depending on who you voted for.”

Bulwark Publisher Sarah Longwell, while reviewing survey participants, said Trump’s unpopularity is now carrying over from severe irritation with the economy and moving into the realm where his policies are more a constant nag on life.

“The first woman who said, ‘I love to travel, but I can't right now because of what's going on at the airports.’ That wasn't even in the ‘how are things going in the country’ part. That was in the ‘what do you do for fun part,’” said Longwell. “This to me is always something I think about with voters, which is the ... ‘my life is getting 20 percent more annoying’ threshold.”

Longwell showed no patience for Trump’s people claiming the president is “playing 12 D chess” and that all will pan out in the end. The president, she corrected, has no strategy, and he makes use of none.

“Whenever people are like, ‘he's playing 15-dimensional chess,’ I'm like, ‘no, he's eating the pieces, guys. Just eating what's on the board,’” said Longwell.

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