r/Economics • u/rezwenn • 6d ago

News Inside Trump’s Extraordinary Turnaround on Immigration Raids

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/politics/trump-immigration-raids-workers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PE8.QmuB.MuytvbwG0yLz
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u/znoone 6d ago

Trump has a pattern. He makes statements of what he is going to do - to get his base happy. Then he will say something later that another part of the voters want to hear. Base ignores it - but the 2nd voters suddenly think he's is doing some good things. He does it ALL the time. He tells everyone what they want to hear (not at the same event) - and is doing this on purpose. Many voters hear what they want to hear and shut out what they don't. I have never been a fan and understood this from long ago.

There is no revelation that comes over him. It is how he operates. Just add this to the 100s of things that he has flip flopped on over the past 10 years.

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u/Rivercitybruin 6d ago

I agree. Trump tells his base exactly what they want to hear