Robert Reich asks why some Congressional Republicans are only now finding they have a spine. His response:

"Because the MAGA base that every congressional Republican is so afraid of and solicitous toward is falling apart.

They’re finally seeing Trump for what he is: a man without principle except getting richer and more powerful and engraving his name on buildings."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Congress #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #affordability #ballroom
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-really-truly-the-end

"A lame-duck president who said he’d make life better for MAGA starting on 'day one' but has made life worse for MAGA by month 10.

He doesn’t even believe in lowering prices. He calls the affordability crisis a 'con' job."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Congress #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #affordability #ballroom
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Robert Reich asks why some Congressional Republicans are only now finding they have a spine. His response:

"Because the MAGA base that every congressional Republican is so afraid of and solicitous toward is falling apart.

They’re finally seeing Trump for what he is: a man without principle except getting richer and more powerful and engraving his name on buildings."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Congress #polls #ApprovalRating #economy #affordability #ballroom
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-really-truly-the-end

“Revello Labs is reporting: US #economy didn't just slow down in Nov 2025,
🚨IT SHRANK.

Acc to their data,🚨we lost 9K jobs last mo -2nd mo in a row of neg growth.

They revised the data for the last 4 mos, essentially admitting they prev overcounted by ~160K jobs.

The trend is clear, the job mkt is deteriorating.

Scariest part of this report is who’s losing #jobs.

The private sector (bus’ that drive the economy) shed ~19,400 positions.
Massive🚩”
-Kobeissi L
#Trumpcession #Protest #USPol

“Revello Labs is reporting: US #economy didn't just slow down in Nov 2025,
🚨IT SHRANK.

Acc to their data,🚨we lost 9K jobs last mo -2nd mo in a row of neg growth.

They revised the data for the last 4 mos, essentially admitting they prev overcounted by ~160K jobs.

The trend is clear, the job mkt is deteriorating.

Scariest part of this report is who’s losing #jobs.

The private sector (bus’ that drive the economy) shed ~19,400 positions.
Massive🚩”
-Kobeissi L
#Trumpcession #Protest #USPol

"There’s a certain tone the American media adopts when it has decided that the public is asking too much of it: the demeanor of a patient parent explaining that ice cream is not dinner, even though everybody wants it to be.

Last week, The Washington Post published a headline that captured this perfectly with a straight face: 'Why you may not want lower prices as much as you think you do.'”

~ Julie Roginsky

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #media
/13

https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/corporate-media-has-decided-your

"New polling shows many Americans have begun to blame President Donald Trump for the high costs they’re feeling across virtually every part of their lives — and it’s shifting politics.

Almost half — 46 percent — say the cost of living in the U.S. is the worst they can ever remember it being, a view held by 37 percent of 2024 Trump voters."

~ Erin Doherty

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
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https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/04/poll-americans-trump-voters-affordability-crisis-00674747

"Something fundamental has shifted. The media, once the antagonist of those who rule, increasingly sounds like the parenthetical aside in a White House briefing. The institutions that spent years insisting they were the last line of defense against creeping authoritarianism now appear suspiciously eager to adjust to it."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #media #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites #authoritarianism #oligarchy
/15

"On Tuesday, it followed this up with, 'Actually, today’s food prices are a bargain.' ...

These aren’t stories about food. They are stories about surrender to a president who has declared that affordability 'doesn’t mean anything to anybody' and a 'con job.'”

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #media #WashingtonPost #JeffBezos #EconomicElites
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"There’s a certain tone the American media adopts when it has decided that the public is asking too much of it: the demeanor of a patient parent explaining that ice cream is not dinner, even though everybody wants it to be.

Last week, The Washington Post published a headline that captured this perfectly with a straight face: 'Why you may not want lower prices as much as you think you do.'”

~ Julie Roginsky

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #media
/13

https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/corporate-media-has-decided-your

"Trump won the 2024 election in large part because nonwhite Americans, relative to their voting decisions in 2020, moved significantly in his direction. Pew’s survey of validated voters found that black, Latino, and Asian-American voters shifted toward Trump by 16, 22, and 23 percentage points, respectively."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries #immigrants
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"DONALD TRUMP’S LATEST ASSAULT ON IMMIGRANTS—threatening to 'denaturalize' U.S. citizens who were born in other countries—is an affront to human rights & American values. It’s also a betrayal of the six million naturalized Americans who voted for him last year. Without their ballots, he wouldn’t be president. And if they turn against him, his party will be out of power."

~ Will Saletan

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries #immigrants
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-bites-the-hand-that-voted-for-him-naturalized-immigrants-citizens
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"Trump is handling this reversal with his usual style and grace: in the past few days he has repeatedly called affordability a 'hoax' and a 'con job.' ....

Trump may believe that affordability is a con job, but it isn’t. It’s going to hit him and his allies hard. And it couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
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"Although economists warned that there was no way he could deliver on those promises, enough voters believed him to swing the election.

Now that Trump has in fact utterly failed to deliver, those voters — especially those Black and Latino voters who believed him — have swung back to the Democrats with a vengeance."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
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"In the summer of 2024, as Trump was lagging in the polls behind Kamala Harris, he began to repeatedly and explicitly promise not simply to reduce inflation but to deliver large declines in consumer prices: 'Starting the day I take the oath of office, I will rapidly drive prices down.'"

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/magas-affordability-crisis-will-soon

"The vibe is late Bourbon decadence and indifference, King Donald the Corpulent in his palace, while the peasantry starves."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices
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"There is no universe, in this one or any alternate timeline, where 'let’s lock up the economic data and build a shiny new ballroom' is a winning affordability message.

Yet here we are.

You saw Donald Trump’s 18th iteration of his affordability message yesterday, when he said of affordability, 'It doesn’t mean anything to anybody…The word affordability is a con job by the Democrats.'”

~ Rick Wilson

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/a-blue-revolution-is-brewing

This kind of #policy making — the #ACIP childhood #vaccine schedule, combined with not extending #ACA subsidies, adding #WorkRequirements to #SNAP / #FoodStamps & #Medicaid — all coming simultaneously in 2026 — is going to be an assault upon the #poor people of the #UnitedStates all while we are in a #Kshaped #economy with the #WealthGap ever widening.

#PublicHealth #science #medicine #Trump #RFKJr #disinformation #law #regulations #insurance #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #SocialCleansing #eugenics

“'Affordability' doesn’t have a universally agreed-upon definition. Is it just a vibe? A number? How can you tell if it’s getting better or worse?

So let’s talk about how you might go about measuring affordability, if you were trying to do so in an intellectually honest way, and what Trump could do to improve the issue. He’s probably not going to like the answer."

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
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“'The word "affordability" is a con job by the Democrats,' Trump declared during this week’s cabinet meeting, in between snoozes. 'The word "affordability" is a Democrat scam,' he insisted, adding that the word 'doesn’t mean anything to anybody.'

Sure, just last week he was proclaiming himself 'THE AFFORDABILITY PRESIDENT,' but maybe he has a point."

~ Catherine Rampell

#Trump #MAGA #Republicans #economy #affordability #prices #groceries
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-affordability-con-job-inflation