Trump received 49.8% of the popular vote.
My guess is this doesn’t help or hurt either party at the voting booth. If you are ACA aligned or participate in that program you probably already vote Dem or not at all.
I suspect a lot of FIRE people ( being excellent money managers / penny pinchers ) are in this boat.
But if you are younger, perhaps with a chronic condition, in a job that doesn’t provide a health insurance benefit, and with minimal 401k…you are weighting ACA costs…and are in a demographic that historically votes more blue.
If AI and tariffs don’t result in substantial market losses for me (and they haven’t yet) why should I care?
Us FIRE types depend on stable, consistent markets and positive (real) interest rates, and conservatives haven’t delivered on that in recent memory.
The honeymoon is over, but he has not become excessively unpopular.
> Is there some way aside from the obvious mistruths they can demonstrate its the democrats fault, and achieve some electoral advantage?
You discount the skill republicans have at lying -- regardless, when people are feeling the pinch in their pockets, they will blame whoever is in power. Currently it is the republicans.