“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.
“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”
The dialogue above is from Ernest Hemingway’s 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises.
In 2022 the full pain of inflation had not yet been felt. It certainly didn't help that the dems passed a bill called "The Inflation Reduction Act" that did no such thing. (gaslighting) It didn't help that people struggling financially got to see millionaires and billionaires up on the stage in Chicago telling them to feel the joy.
The import of a Venezuelan prison gang is something that working class voters could see and feel in their communities. The dems gaslighting doublespeak for 4 years that the border is secure and that it if wasn't that it was Trump's fault not only didn't work, it was outright offensive to voters. Many people support legal immigration, they don't support this bullshit where people enter the country illegally and are given housing, food, a phone, a little spending money, etc.