Do the voters know that Trump’s policies would drive inflation?

They’re sending a message; they’re paying attention; they know what they’re doing. But sometimes you gotta wonder.

You don’t get far in life questioning the wisdom of the people. And in democracies, we’re definitely supposed to bow before the voters. They’re sending a message; they’re paying attention; know what they’re doing. But sometimes, well, you gotta wonder.

In survey after survey around the 2024 election, Americans said the economy was their priority and inflation the top economic issue. This is understood to have helped Donald Trump, whose overwhelming lack of personal virtue was not deemed by most a top issue.

It’s policy that interested the voters, we’re told. But Trump’s signature proposals – mass deportations of over 10 million illegal immigrants and across-the-board tariffs on imports – will both send inflation, which is actually right now rather low, back through the roof. Could the voters not have known?