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Subscribe to Trumponomics on Apple PodcastsSubscribe to Trumponomics on SpotifyOn this week’s Trumponomics, host Stephanie Flanders explores how Democrats are repurposing President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign theme—affordability—as their own political cudgel, and whether it could lead to more victories in 2026. Bloomberg political correspondent Nancy Cook and The Atlantic writer Annie Lowrey join to unpack the politics and policy behind America’s enduring cost-of-living crisis. Democrats won off-year elections earlier this month in part by using Trump’s own rhetoric on inflation and household costs to their advantage, signaling a powerful line of attack heading into next year’s midterms. Lowrey, who popularized the term “the great affordability crisis” in a 2020 essay, traced the problem’s evolution from a demand shortfall to a chronic supply squeeze.
