Thread by @ryangrim

The fact that people are so mad at the economy even as wages and savings account balances are rising and unemployment is falling shows that when people think “economy” they think of the way it’s supposed to serve them as consumers interc.pt/3Exzg1M

Relatedly, when non-union workers get a raise they don’t credit politicians or the Fed for that raise. That should be obvious but it isn’t. When people see higher gas prices, of course, they blame whoever’s in power.

If you prefer to be talked at rather than read here’s the Rising version

Not scientific but these are presumably mostly right wing folks answering with no incentive to puff up the economy and still a plurality say they got a raise

https://twitter.com/cernovich/status/1467966371329818626

The previous backlash against high prices helped usher in 40 years of flat wages and assaults on workers. Stopping that from happening again is what this is about.

https://twitter.com/gilleypdx/status/1468298091673440256

This is a key issue and I would not lump this in as a “consumer” oriented problem. If the media is going to focus on costs of living this should be it

https://twitter.com/flyersfanfla/status/1468299443778826249

Folks making the argument that people are sour on the economy bc it is structurally awful have to explain why people felt better about it a year or two ago, when the same structural problems existed. The goal here is to explain what's driving the *change*.