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applegrove

(130,334 posts)
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 10:50 AM Dec 11

Why Trump Is Doomed to Lose on Affordability

Why Trump Is Doomed to Lose on Affordability

December 11, 2025 at 9:20 am EST By Taegan Goddard 136 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/12/11/why-trump-is-doomed-to-lose-on-affordability/


Dan Pfeiffer: “In the minds of most voters, Trump’s economic policy can be summed up in one word: tariffs.”

“Trump was elected to lower prices, and one of his first and most high-profile acts was to explicitly raise prices on nearly everything. Americans know about the tariffs, and they don’t buy Trump’s absurd and largely incomprehensible arguments about why he enacted them.”

“Voters draw a straight line from Trump’s tariffs to higher prices. A Navigator Research poll of battleground House districts found that 69% believe that tariffs have increased costs.”
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Why Trump Is Doomed to Lose on Affordability (Original Post) applegrove Dec 11 OP
We see increasing prices, we pay the increasing prices vapor2 Dec 11 #1
"Becoming" a shit hole country durablend Dec 11 #2
We're all going to lose. progressoid Dec 11 #3
He's poison for the midterms leftstreet Dec 11 #4

vapor2

(3,789 posts)
1. We see increasing prices, we pay the increasing prices
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 11:37 AM
Dec 11

but the moron continues to repeat "affordability" and calling it a hoax. His buddies will never tell him the truth for fear of his wrath. We are becoming a shit hole country

leftstreet

(38,868 posts)
4. He's poison for the midterms
Thu Dec 11, 2025, 12:38 PM
Dec 11

But does he care? He's getting just as angry at the GOPers (and his own voters) as the DeMoCraTs, so maybe he just wants to burn them all down. Narcissists do that

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