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If the checks didn't get Trump over the line in 2020, it's hard for me to believe they had a big effect in 2024.
probably because you forgot biden what was saying during the 2020 general election: that he was going to cut us all another big pandemic check and forgive everyone with student loans under $50K.
two specific short term promises that exceeded trumps first term cash payments.
but, once in office, biden abandoned both while simultaneously and unilaterally funding two very public proxy wars. the 2020 campaign was a bidding war of actual cash for votes. the 2020 biden admin was 180° from all of it.
it cannot be overstated how biden wildly biden reversed course from his 2020 campaign. we and anyone who paid attention to his career all knew biden was full of shit, but he really outdid himself as prez.
the way libs acted surprised about the 2024 election is a testament to their coordinated forgetting of what happened from 2020-2024.
I didn't forget that, but I also don't recall Trump making that an issue in 2024.
We often talk about how Democratic voters don't behave like they have much of a memory. I get the argument about the feeling of cash in hand and a promise for more, I just don't think it mattered that much four years later for an electorate that seems to operate mostly in the now.