https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/11/democrats-tricked-strong-economy-00203464

The data is not bad, but our framing of the data is weirdly rigid. The price for failing to dig into the state of America over the past 25y is we got Trump.

“since 2001, the cost of living for Americans with modest incomes has risen 35 percent faster than the CPI”