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Originally Posted by James

High-inflation post pandemic was real though.

In my opinion, the main reason for governments getting voted out recently.

Indeed but nothing to do with who was or was not in power at the time or in the days following - the idea that governments can control market forces is, again, not free-market economics... which is Trump's entire platform.

If the government could take action that would "fix the price of eggs", that would be a form of socialism.

But you are essentially saying the same thing that I am;

People are voting with their emotions based on manipulative aiunbites from candidates, with little (if any) understanding of what they are or are not voting for. We're supposed to pretend otherwise because - for some reason - it's "controversial" to suggest that people who believe bucketloads of other unscientific garbage might have a poor grasp on domestic politics but 'tis whrt it 'tis... and the "politicians" know that .