The Democrats’ affordability narrative is a lie, and Republicans need to push back hard
The political Left in America, desperate for a lifeline, anything that isn’t just more TDS rage, has pinned its hopes on affordability. That word is making the rounds, and after winning a few elections where Democrats typically win, that’s their new baby.
Affordability.
Republicans, including some voices alleged to be in the MAGA movement (or still in it), are carrying the Democrats’ water. Narratives attributed to MAGA insiders but that are more likely generated by America-hating bot farmers, packaged and sold as a brewing civil war.
Put your rhetorical guns down and pay attention.
A Democrat wouldn’t know affordability if it bit them in the ass. Not one thing they propose, have done, or might do makes life or living more affordable. Quite the opposite, and there are more than enough historical examples.
Pick a Dem-run city. Mayors and councils drive people out of the middle class and into poverty and homelessness while forcing businesses to leave because they can no longer afford to do business. City-run stores are a response to Democrats having made it too expensive for private companies to do business there.
Democrats know this. The layers of bureaucracy, taxes, fees, top-heavy regulations, and permitting and inspection regimes can more than triple the cost of doing anything, which means affordable housing can never be affordable. Not ever. Taxpayers have to cover the costs of the regulatory state, which makes it impossible, and then for the subsidies necessary to make the cost of living in them appear “affordable.”
Much like their carbon emissions virtue-signalling the cost is offshored and made invisible locally, but felt elsewhere exponentially.
Joe Biden and Democrats made the current state of America unaffordable, and there is not one arrow in the Left’s quiver that would change that.
Democrats created what they are complaining about to win elected office.
Trump and Republicans have spent the past ten months undoing the damage.
Wages have outpaced inflation for the past five months.
The economy, despite the AI blood bath, is creating real jobs (instead of adding government jobs) every month.
And for all you whiners bitchng about Trump’s tariffs?
They have forced scores of trade deals that are better for Americans and our products abroad.
Trump has used Tariffs to strong-arm the EU, the UK, and even China into not just massive investment in the US but to lower non-tariff barriers to trade for US goods.
Tariff policy has been used as leverage to end wars and military conflicts—at least seven of them and possibly more.
Trump’s Tariff policy has helped onshore a significant amount of manufacturing critical to national defense and manufacturing in general, which will create lots of blue-collar jobs that pay above-average wages, good benefits, and tend to retain employees for longer.
Onshoring manufacturing creates good jobs, but it also begins to address the massive logistics issues we discovered when the world shut down during the so-called pandemic. We found we needed to build it here, and in just ten months, Trump has begun to do precisely that.
In one weekend, Trump secured multiple rare-earth metals deals, more than a trillion in direct investment into the US, and simultaneously took half of China’s trade leverage off the table in a run-up to a meeting with Xi. We decided we’ll build our own magnets, thanks. Twelve months from now, and possibly for decades if we keep our heads on straight, US families will benefit from all of this.
Tariff gymnastics have been used to stop illegal alien caravans, slow or stop fentanyl trafficking into Mexico from China, leverage Zelensky into a corner he now finds he can’t get out of, hopefully ending the Ukraine bullshit (the corruption scandal will be the last straw), eliminating that expensive and tragic distraction and loss of life. At the same time, shutting down the laundromat that was using US and other foreign “aid” to pad the pockets of more than Zelenskyy’s inner circle.
Let’s just say that the Globalists are not too happy about any of this.
Lots of prices are down, and yes, Trump just lowered some tariffs on things like coffee that will help, but that was always going to be part of the upfront price we had to pay for what could be decades of lower prices and prosperity.
Breaking things is always easier than fixing them, and whoever was running the Biden Administration broke things. A lot of things. As bad or worse than Obama, who, if you recall, insisted his laggard low-T economy was the new normal.
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The two key takeaways are this. Whatever his faults, Trump will keep working to stabilize the economy and improve the lives of everyday Americans. He wants you to be able to afford a more comfortable life and to have opportunities on our shores.
Democrats don’t, won’t, or can’t.
If you challenge them on affordability, they can’t give an honest answer or example, while you can easily find dozens of them proving they only know how to make things more expensive or more scarce, while robbing people who still work – to buy the votes of people whom Democrat’s polices probably made poor.
Instead of carrying their water, throw it in their face.
And while you’re at it, Republicans could do more. A lot more. And talk is cheap. Call your members of Congress and tell them to support every effort to make America great again, not for a few weeks for sound bites, but for years to come.
