I’ve seen a lot of blackpilling on Twitter about Trump over the past couple days regarding the economy, student loans forgiveness, and healthcare:
And:
Daily Reminder that Student debt should be canceled
People who already paid student loans can get tax credits
People who paid out of pocket get even bigger tax credit
Reform Student lending entirely, set interests to 0%, offer loans to degrees with positive ROI over 10 years…
— AJAC (@AJA_Cortes) November 7, 2025
Three months ago everyone was celebrating ICE raids and saying ‘this what they voted for’. Now healthcare, student loan debt, and inflation are a sudden concern by those same people? There is a greater likelihood of a Bitcoin reserve than Trump endorsing student loan forgiveness; or in other words, zero chance.
It’s remarkable how people who make a living writing political commentary don’t actually understand how politics works in America. You don’t vote Republican because you care about inflation or healthcare. It’s for tax cuts, defense/military, ‘lib ownage’, and deregulation. Those are the main reasons. No one votes for Trump because they want affordable healthcare, student loans discharged, low inflation or affordable housing, or at least should not expect those things.
But also, I think people are blowing off steam from what they perceive as an economy that is increasingly lopsided or unfair. If you’re talented/smart/lucky enough to get a good job, such as in tech, and invest and save, you can do really well and have a high net worth and not have to worry about milk prices. Your expensive HCOL home is rapidly appreciating, along with your stock portfolio. Student loans are manageable and dwarfed by your huge paycheck. But this is unobtainable for most.
I agree that insurance premiums and costs are out of control, and it cannot be blamed only on Obamacare or illegals. It has to do with many factors that can hardly be explicated in a simple blog post. But looking to Trump to solve it is not going to lead anywhere, as he has neither the inclination nor the political capital to do anything.
It’s not like the Left can necessarily deliver on those either, but you shouldn’t expect Republicans to make it a priority. There’s a reason the two parties run on different messaging. It’s trendy to think that both parties are the same, e.g. ‘RINOs’ , but one may be surprised to learn they are still quite distinct.
I am not sure why people who voted for Trump would expect him to make inflation a priority or care about that much about it. This is not to say Trump does not care about the economy. Of course, he cares in terms of the stock market rising, low unemployment, and GDP going up, but this is distinct from things such as ‘affordability’ or low inflation.
Also, as the economy grows, so will inflation. Except briefly from 2010-2017 following the Great Recession when inflation was abnormally low, typically the only way to not have inflation is to have a recession. For items that are nominally expensive, a persistent 3-5% inflation rate will add up to a lot of money and is noticeable, but also normal.
People have high expectations of what they want Trump to do, and it’s like ‘tough shit’ when he predictably falls short of those hopes. But on the issue of student loan forgiveness, there is no way Trump can or should deliver on this. It would be greatly unpopular among his base as being perceived as a handout and unfair, which is evident when reading the comments. Second, it does not address the root of the matter, that being credentialism.
Maybe in an ideal world there would not be this compromise or having to choose the ‘less bad’ option, but basically, the Democrats have always been the party of ‘household economic issues’, social justice notwithstanding, versus the Republicans’ focus more on foreign policy and firm/business-focused economic policy.
It is sorta confusing or contradictory how all this works, because when the economy suffers, the sitting party pays, regardless of which party, but Republican voters at the same time don’t see it as the role of the government to fix household or personal-level economic problems. So Trump will run on promising to return jobs to America and restoring American economic greatness, which voters lap up, but then in office, priorities change and voters’ expectations change.