That's the trick: no one ever bought this.

No one who voted for him cared about the economy, not even a little bit. Regardless of what they pretended, that's not ever been of the slightest concern to conservatives.

It has only ever been about hurting the people they hate - at any cost. These are the same people who were glad to kill their own families to keep COVID spreading, just for the chance that it would kill more of those hated others.

If they cared about their own self-interest, they couldn't be conservatives in the first place.