Can't Both Sides a Failure
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Episode notes
I steelman people I disagree with. I've gone after Democrats on this show. So hear me: there are moments when balance becomes dishonesty. When one column has receipts and the other has vibes, equal time isn't fairness — it's lying with good manners.
The fact: by every standard this administration set for itself, it failed. The economy, prices, jobs, war, healthcare, the livability of its own states. That's arithmetic. My argument, which you can reject: it's the most catastrophic self-inflicted stretch of governance in modern memory.
Gas $4.30. Weakest job growth in 20 years — and they fired the person who counted it. A tax law that gave the top 10% $12,000 and the bottom 40% $110. 10.9M off Medicaid, 42M hit by food cuts, an unauthorized Iran war with 13 dead. Two ICE killings six days apart of men who weren't the targets. And CNBC — ...