It might be the case that they voted for whatever economic reason, but inflation is at 2.4%; whereas, wages not only kept up but slightly surpassed inflation. Hence, the idea of the post-truth social media enviroment is much more compelling.

Actually, they did a poll on this that entirely explains this election:

You were right in your previous statement. It's just impossible for a sane mind to operate in the modern social media enviroment. We had one of the worst pandemics in history, and reactionaries, somehow, responded with the biggest anti-vaxxxer movement in history; they were praying away masks....