Weird thing is price of gas ended up at $2.99/gallon. Not shabby. Arguably cheapest ever (taking into account inflation). I wouldn’t say it was high during most of the Biden years.
It wasn’t gas prices that was the problem. It was food. When you see people pick up a package of meat, look at price and put it back over and over again. $5.99 for small bag of chips…$7-$8 for a gallon of milk…
But that could have all been addressed by showing some concern…they ignored it. Obviously you aren’t going to lose votes in Arlington over it. But the lower middle class is now republican. What we have seen is a political realignment.