Binyamin Appelbaum
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394 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 3d ago
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He has been resisting talking about the big issue in all of the polls is affordability, the cost of life.
Democrats have seized on it.
They're making hay from it.
And a lot of Republicans really want the president to focus on how he is going to address that issue.
And Trump has strongly resisted doing so.
He's insisted it's not a real issue.
He's already dealt with it.
It's fixed.
And the tariff thing really, you know, brings that to a head.
My expectation is that he is going to make a full-throated case for the importance of tariffs and double down on it and brag about it because that is everything consistent with his character.
That is the way that he deals with setbacks, at least in the first instance.
The more interesting question as a policy matter is whether he actually sticks with tariffs.
Because the other thing that sometimes happens is after, you know, insisting that he's going to keep on doing whatever he's been told he can't do anymore, he sometimes then backs off.
But the adjustment comes later.
But the real question to me is whether his own instincts, which frankly have served him well, you know, prevail on Tuesday night.
And what we hear is sort of, you know, a doubling down on the things he considers important.
or whether his aides and his supporters in the party have any luck in convincing him that his party's fate in the midterms rests on a change in tone and a change in message and some form of reassurance to the American people that he's actually taking the cost of living seriously.
I think presidents have often been in the position of disagreeing with, resenting, you know, feeling unfairly constrained by Supreme Court decisions.
To me, the difference isn't whether the opposition is principled, but whether, you know, what the president says is basically like, I disagree with you, or I think you're bad people who shouldn't have this power.
Or really, even, I think disagreeing with me is illegitimate.
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