So Much For Lowering The Price of Eggs: The MAGA Agenda Remains Committed to Cruelty Instead of Economic Success
Eggs might be expensive forever. Oranges are rotting and construction sites are barren. Grocery prices haven't gone down. But, even as they're starving, MAGA will at least get to own the libs.
THE LEFT HOOK WITH WAJAHAT ALI
“The price of eggs” is the remake of “economic anxiety,” which corporate America and establishment pundits sold us as the primary motivator for a majority of white voters siding with Donald Trump.
This zombie narrative even helped JD Vance, a wealthy, privileged elite, who was able to mainstream HillBilly Elegy and propel himself to becoming Donald Trump’s Vice President. It didn’t matter that writers who lived in Appalachia and didn’t make their money on Wall Street like Vance kept calling out his book for being inauthentic nonsense that is simply laundering right-wing talking points. As VP, Vance can comfortably lie and deflect on Face the Nationwhen asked how Trump’s cruel and vindictive Executive Orders have helped the economy and brought down the price of groceries. He engaged in a pivot, but why bother? He should have echoed his boss, Donald, and replied, “I don’t care.”
Similarly, those in power still don’t care about studies that repeatedly show that the main, although not exclusive, reason for Trump’s victory was due to “cultural anxiety.” To put it in simple terms: it’s racism, cruelty, and bigotry fueled by 24-7 right-wing misinformation that preys on fear, loathing, and ignorance.