Binyamin Appelbaum
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first heard Feb 2026
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Which is really what Trump is saying, is that the power belongs to him.
I mean, he's been one trend in his second term is that he really seems to be like building up towards saying in increasingly clear ways that he is the state and that what he says is the law and that those who disagree with him are delegitimizing themselves by disagreeing with him.
And that is what is so remarkable about this confrontation between the court and the president is not that they disagree about policy, which is really their job, but that he is questioning the legitimacy of the court disagreeing with him about policy.
I mean, to bring this back to tariffs, one of the really interesting dynamics here is that Democrats haven't been totally sure that Trump is wrong about tariffs.
The Biden administration maintained much of the tariff infrastructure that Trump had built.
There are a lot of Democrats in Congress who have long been skeptical about the benefits on balance of trade for the United States, who are extremely open to the argument that
we ought to be rebuilding manufacturing in part by protecting ourselves against foreign competition.
And so it's been a very difficult place for Democrats to sort of find traction or figure out what exactly they want to say that would create a meaningful distinction for voters between their position on this issue and the president's position on this issue.
And I frankly don't think that's gotten any easier for the party.
Where they are making hay is on affordability.
The idea that the
the cost of living in the United States is going up, that the important things keep getting more expensive, housing, education, healthcare, to the point where a lot of ordinary Americans can't afford those things, and that the government isn't just failing to help, but under Donald Trump is actively making things worse.
That has become a very potent message for the party.
Where Democrats continue to struggle is in explaining what they would do differently.
This is a party that continues to lack a coherent economic vision.
I don't think it's just a civil war problem.
I mean, there are different wings of the party ideologically, and they have some definable differences over what economic policy might look like.
But I'm not even sure any of those wings has defined a completely coherent plan for moving forward.
It is really a party in search of answers.
They know what the questions are, and they're putting them increasingly forcefully and successfully.
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