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Former President Donald Trump's supporters say they hold him as a source of true information over their family, friends, and religious leaders, according to a new CBS News/YouGov poll out on Sunday.

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[–] logen@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Policies of Trump... I don't know. About year two into his presidency, wages went up quite a bit in areas I lived in. Jobs became more available. General craziness was down, except for all those spouting hate at Trump the entire time.

I'm not saying I particularly paid much attention or attribute community growth due to his presidency, but things were getting better while he was president and dramatically tanked a year or two after Biden took over.

Just the general feel of places I've lived over the past 8 years or so.

For reference, I lived in low density suburban/rural areas during this time. May be way different in proper cities.

[–] BigNote@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wages have gone up much more under Biden who after all, inherited a badly crippled economy in the 1st place. Trump talks a lot, makes big promises, tells lots of lies, but meanwhile his only legislative accomplishment was to sign a giant tax cut for the rich that was completely written by congressional Republicans rather than his own administration.

And that's not even mentioning all his foreign policy blunders and the fact that he was an international laughing stock among all our major allies.

I could go on but I won't.

[–] logen@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

On the low end I haven't seen wages increase, if anything they've fallen, but they may be more to do with the whole of 2020 craziness that resulted in even greater worker shortages amongst the laborers, and the system comming back to equilibrium.

Foreign policy blunders? Pretty sure that's the first thing Biden did. Jump out of Afghanistan so fast we abandoned Europe and trampled some of our own.

Then there's the whole, cripple the European economy thing. I know there's more to it than that, but with the Ukraine thing, America really pressured Europe into crippling itself.

But I digress. I'm not trying to defend trump, nor attack Biden. Just note my casual observinces of my local economy.