And the flip in narrative was as close to immediate as it possibly gets, based on my experience.

For months, the narrative in part of my family was “eggs is the only thing we could still afford to eat and now they made that unaffordable, too”.

Trump gets into office, part of his messaging was lower prices like day one, yet the eggs continue getting more expensive. And suddenly family is well-versed in supply chain issues, supply and demand, bird flu culling, and so on.

A year later, though, they literally will not talk about anything that’s going on now if there’s even a remotely political slant to it (ex: price of gas, new round of layoffs locally). Their current narrative has become “I don’t keep up with the news no more. I haven’t been on Facebook in months. I haven’t heard about that. I ain’t been in to town in awhile to see the prices.”