Manufacturers and sellers will keep prices as high as possible to compensate for the drop-off in demand, and people have become so accustomed to paying through the nose that they won't think much of it.
That said, four years is a pretty brief period of time. Don't get complacent and don't think you don't have to keep *stuff* in quantity anymore...Look upon Trump's term as breathing room, nothing more.
“Prices will never go back to pre-08 levels.”
I didn’t say how low, but LOWER.