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By Matt Boose, Chronicles, November 19, 2025

Matt Boose is a contributor at American Greatness and a 2020 Publius Fellow of the Claremont Institute. Follow him on Twitter at @matt_boose.

“Affordability” is the Democratic Party’s talking point du jour, and unhappily for President Trump, it cannot be dismissed as a mere “con job,” as he suggested in a recent interview with FOX News’s Laura Ingraham.

While it is true that inflation is easing, the president’s crowing about it is cold comfort to many Americans who, after several years of compounded cost increases, are still struggling to make ends meet. The job market is brutal, especially for young white-collar workers replaced by AI. By far the steepest obstacle for most Americans is the astronomical cost of housing, which is locking entire generations out of wealth creation, family formation, and upward mobility.

Trump and his team seem to be struggling to find solutions. Proposals like a 50-year mortgage and a $2,000 tariff dividend may help limit pain for Republicans in the midterms, but they won’t fix the country’s core economic problems and could even make them worse. The truth is that the president can’t genuinely make things easier with a wave of a magic wand, despite what Trump’s campaign rhetoric suggests. However, he can take steps to slowly improve conditions. …