“This crazy tariff war … like, the fact that nobody is questioning his mental acuity or fitness to serve is beyond wild to me, right?" said Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Tex., during a Thursday appearance on MSNBC’s “All In with Chris Hayes.”
“Like, the fact that they sat around, called Joe Biden ‘Sleepy Joe Biden’ … at least you could sleep at night because you didn’t have to worry about your 401(k) disappearing overnight," Crockett told Hayes.
“You didn’t have to worry about the cost of food just skyrocketing or skyrocketing costs of all of your electronics,” she said.
“Like, this is crazy work. For no reason.”
If she’s referring to prices under Biden, then I don’t agree with that. Part of why so many people voted for Trump is because of how Trump hammered home the inflation argument specifically with groceries.
It’s a shame those people didn’t realize Trump had no plans of helping with prices, and he was just using the issue as a wedge. But we can’t pretend groceries didn’t go up an insane amount under Biden. Now, was it Biden’s fault? No, he inherited a crap show from Trump and did his best to stop the damage. But low information voters don’t know that. they just know they started paying way more under Biden.
I think you’re misunderstanding the context. This is not criticizing voters who thought that candidate Trump was good. It’s criticizing people who are not reacting strongly enough to Trump now.
I don’t think they misunderstood the context. The user is saying that while the broader point she is making is correct, specifically saying we didn’t have to worry about grocery prices under Biden undermines the message.