Republicans suddenly think the economy is great and the election wasn’t rigged

The vibrations have officially changed.

Is the economy broken as Donald Trump said? All it took was for him to win and Consumer sentiment among Republicans rose.

Elections? Suddenly Republicans agreed with the fact that they were safe. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he has seen no evidence of fraud in the 2024 campaign.

What about the media environment? Fox News viewership increased since Trump win harsh criticism network through November 5.

At the same time, Democrats’ views of the economy (essentially their view of the overall health of the economy) have also fallen. 13 percent increase after Trump’s victory. Liberal MSNBC also saw a decline in viewership.

While this may be confusing for Republicans right now, it’s a role reversal that will quickly bring with it all the responsibilities associated with the job. Republicans claim they are about to see greater economic recovery, lower prices and the crackdown on immigrants that Trump promised on the campaign trail. Democrats, meanwhile, no longer have a status quo to defend and, like Republicans for the past few years, will seek to paint a dark portrait of the opposition party.

“Republicans felt like they were living in an ‘I told you so’ style for four years, and everything they said about Biden was the truth, whether it was his mental breakdown or the Biden-Harris policies of the last four years. “They felt like they were against everybody and the country noticed,” said Matthew Bartlett, a GOP strategist who was appointed under Trump’s first administration. “Now Democrats are taking a very similar stance, especially with the emergence of many of the Cabinet nominees, saying, ‘We told you what it would be like.’”

It is normal for the winning party to see a wave of optimism within its ranks. But pollsters also saw the mood shift coming this year for another reason: Exit polls showed voters wanted big change this election — and it was Trump who was ultimately seen as the agent of change, as Vice President Kamala Harris tried to distinguish herself from other parties. Policies that the Biden administration and voters see as responsible for their current pocketbook problems.

While the area where these divisions will be seen the most is the economy, the difference between the perceptions of the parties is expected to widen in the coming months. It’s a trend that began in the final months before Election Day, when Republican voters took a more optimistic outlook as they awaited Trump’s victory, said Micah Roberts, a partner at Public Opinion Strategies who oversees economic issues at the bipartisan NBC. CNBC polls.

“We’re going to see Republicans catapult to probably the most positive point ever about the future in terms of the current state of the economy, and Democrats are going to kind of bounce back to a much less rosy place,” Roberts said. “Especially when you get this trio of wins, attitudes about the economy are viewed from a really strongly partisan perspective.”

The risk for Republicans is that the honeymoon period won’t last forever. With Trump in the White House and the GOP controlling the House and Senate, Americans will be looking for somewhere to place the blame if they don’t see the improvements they desire.

“The best thing Democrats have going for them is running against Republicans. And the best thing Republicans have to offer them is to run against Democrats,” Roberts said. “Once you’re in power, you can’t control everything, and even the things you can control, the parties in power tend to overdo it.”

This divide exists even within the Republican Party. Anti-Trump Republicans who voted for Harris or abstained from the election altogether are grappling with whether the more traditionalist, Ronald Reagan strain of the party is no longer worth fighting for, and many have lost their appetite for resistance. Efforts like the ones they launched during Trump’s first presidency.

“I think people who oppose Trumpism look at it from an existential perspective, not from a policy perspective but from a character perspective, with the hope that we will become better people from this,” said co-founder Mike Madrid. Anti-Trump Lincoln Project and longtime GOP strategist. “At a certain point you can force people to talk to their better angels, but if they don’t want to you can never win that battle. We Negative a better person. “This is who we are.”

On the Democratic side, members are so despondent about a second Trump victory, and especially Trump’s resounding victory in the popular vote, that the public response has been only a fraction of the response after Trump’s first victory in 2016: in major liberal cities or no mass protests on college campuses and no major institutional denunciations of Trump. And they feel less hopeful about the country’s future than they did eight years ago.

“Because now it’s very clear who he is. It’s like, ‘We don’t care if he’s a criminal, we don’t care if he’s a rapist.’ We don’t care if he’s corrupt.’ Whereas before the jury was a little out and now we know. “And people are literally voting and saying, ‘Yeah, these things don’t matter to me,'” said Vanessa Wruble, co-founder of the 2017 Women’s March. “There is some kind of surprise this time. But if we feel confused, it means something important is missing.”

Some Democrats remain hopeful that their party will be rebuilt, arguing that the lack of public outcry in the immediate aftermath of Trump’s election isn’t a bad thing as people process the election results. Indivisible, which emerged in the wake of the 2016 election, published a 30-page guide focused on turning despair into action during a call attended by 40,000 people this week and has already signed up 8,000 people to facilitate community organizing meetings. nationwide.

“To some extent, they are pulling back from things that remind them of 2017, but they look forward to ways forward,” said Leah Greenberg, a co-founder of the group. “People are very upset. They’re very upset about what happened, but they also understand that this is a possibility that doesn’t prepare people for 2016. They also understand that we don’t have a perfect democracy on Monday. A perfect democracy on Wednesday. They realize this is a longer-term challenge.”

Indivisible, MoveOn, the Working Families Party and other progressive groups also hosted a post-election organizing call that drew more than 100,000 people. Swing Left, another organization born after Trump’s 2016 election, will host a grassroots organizing call next week to map the path ahead. And the Women’s March, under new leadership, is planning marches in Washington and across the country on Jan. 18, two days before the inauguration, with nearly 75,000 people already signed up to attend.

“After a global pandemic, multiple election cycles and disastrous dobbs With this decision, we are in a completely new era in American politics. “Trying to equate the reaction to Trump’s victory in 2016 with the current one is an apples-to-oranges comparison,” said Rachel O’Leary Carmona, executive director of the Women’s March. “The Women’s March is one of many major organizations organizing a People’s March in January to demonstrate our strength and continue to build a broad front of popular resistance.”

However, Wruble, who left the organization amid internal conflict, will not be there.

When he arrived Thursday evening, he was sitting in the animal and art sanctuary he had set up with numerous parrots, hairless guinea pigs and a zebra. After years of divisions among progressive organizations, he is letting things go as he says he has moved away from “prioritizing the real threat.”

“Maybe my story is an example of something going wrong,” Wruble said.