The Meaning of Trump’s Working-Class ‘Buyer’s Remorse’

Trump voters are rejecting Republicans in large numbers. But they’re not coming back to Democrats yet.

Jared Abbott and Joan C. Williams recently conducted an innovative survey of Trump voters that was released in Jacobin. They conclude that “Donald Trump’s erratic, vindictive, and economically damaging first year in office has already given many of those same voters buyer’s remorse.” An astonishing one in five 2024 Trump voters now shun the Republicans in a prospective 2028 race.

This is a full-fledged working-class revolt, where 21 percent of Trump voters without a college degree say they are finished with Trump’s party.

How sweet is it that the groups leading the revolt are the ones Trump and the MAGA strategists thought would anchor the new Republican coalition. Fully 27 percent of Blacks and 41 percent of Hispanics now say to count them out. And in Abbott and Williams’s survey, 57 percent of “switchers” who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 and Trump in 2024 say they will not vote Republican in 2028.

The full article can be read at The American Prospect.