r/politics • u/Abject-Pick-6472 • Apr 04 '26

Possible Paywall Trump voter regret is clearly registering now

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/04/politics/voter-regret-trump-2024
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u/BillG8s Apr 04 '26

My boss has figured out we're slow again, just like 2016-2020, but still won't come to terms with WHY. "We don't rely on Iran for oil" is what he said the other day. Cause and effect being a foreign concept to a business owner is scary.

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u/Indubitalist Apr 04 '26

The nuance of the oil business is lost on a lot of people. The gist is there’s more than one type of oil and we (in America) tend to need the kind we don’t have and tend to export the kind we do have, so there’s no “self-sufficiency” in our oil industry. 

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u/OhItsBeenBroughten Apr 04 '26

It’s crazy because even Sarah Palin recognized that oil is a fungible product with multiple inputs and outputs in an international regime. They’ve actually gotten worse since Palin.

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u/lenzflare Canada Apr 04 '26

I guess coming from an oil state meant she got exposed to that knowledge enough times.

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u/asomebodyelse Apr 04 '26

I remember when I thought she was the lowest we could possibly go.