Eggs US – Price – Chart

I mean egg prices became a meme for exactly the subtext you're implying. This election season was unbelievably frustrating because of how large a focus was placed on economic conditions which as a general rule leads to throwing out incumbents. And the new generation running the GOP is a bunch of people who look more like a conspiracy forum than a government. To the point where Democrats got nervous and ran someone who in 2008/12 could have run as a Republican. Trying to give moderate Republicans for whom the economy is their biggest issue someone to vote for.

But as soon as the election was over the economy was suddenly great and none of that mattered. Despite consumer prices having either not moved at all or gotten worse thanks to bird flu, looming tariffs which look to extract straight from people's wallets and a proposed tax policy that is about the same for everyone who isn't mega rich. The egg price thing has become a, "guess we know what people really voted for." I was looking forward to the tax cut that'll probably never come.

Strangely enough, just last week I heard somebody complaining about egg prices in Dollar General. And I live in red country. So at least on the ground, people haven't forgotten about the eggs.