Tim Miller

How do those conversations work inside the White House?

Not only did it not work, but he actually has the lessons of the Biden administration when they were telling folks that inflation was a transitory thing, wouldn't have long-term impact.

In a way, he was looking at voters and, again, doing that thing that you're not supposed to do.

I've never been one of those people who believe that the customer is always right, but I do believe that the customer needs to be heard, right?

In the first Obama term, we're coming off of the collapse of the banks, the collapse of the housing market, the need to bail out the auto industry, which was not politically popular at all at the time.

We're looking at all that.

And then you have this exceedingly slow recovery.

And by the time we get into President Obama's reelect against Mitt Romney in 2011, 2012,

we have unemployment that's near double digits, which is an astounding thing to have to face in a re-election, a historic thing that usually does not go the way of the incumbent.

During that entire cycle, President Obama was disciplined enough to understand that he had to sit in the economic pain that people were experiencing, that he had to be seen to hear it, to feel it, and to be proximate to their experiences and then to reflect it back to them.

I know that we have this challenge.

I understand what's happening downstream.

I get the pressure that you're facing with your housing.

And I do know that for the first time, first time since World War II, we have a generation of Americans who believe they're not going to do at least as well as their parents did.

I get that.

And therefore, here are three things I want to be able to focus on in health care, in education and opportunity into the future and what we're going to do to improve real wages and benefits.

Here are the things we've got to focus on right now.

But I'm hearing all this.

I'm experiencing all this.

Last night, Donald Trump said, y'all are crazy.