Ezra Klein
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then disapproves of it.
Suck it, liberals.
Fast forward a year, your net approval on immigration is negative 13%.
Immigration has gone from your strongest issue to a reason the country dislikes you.
Or take the economy.
In early February of 2025, you were doing pretty well, plus 7%.
But then came the tariffs.
Now your net approval on the economy is negative 17%, negative 17%.
And it gets worse.
On trade, it is negative 23%.
On inflation, negative 30%, negative 30%.
So now it is state of the union time.
You have this rare opportunity to address the entire political system, the entire country.
So what do you do?
Do you tell the American people you're working on it?
That you know there's disruption and tumult.
It's just going to take some time for all these policies to pay off.
Do you tell the American people you hear them and you're going to change course, you've got a new plan?
Or do you tell the American people that they're wrong?
That everything is actually going great?