Donald Trump's Plan To Make You Poorer

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🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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This week on Politix, Matt and Brian step back from the news cycle to examine Donald Trump’s policy agenda, and the weird extent to which he’s getting a pass on toxic ideas:

* His plan for an across the board 10 percent tariff would make Americans pay more for virtually everything, including groceries;

* A big immigration crackdown like the one he’s promised would raise prices further;

* But since these ideas are coded as pro American-worker, he faces little pushback for the terrible consequences they’d entail.

Then, paid subscribers get a deeper look at whether the threat of these consequences will eventually catch up with Trump, and hear an extended analogy between the politics of tariffs (which would cause more hardship) and the long saga of Medicare for all. Why did Medicare for all lose popularity over time? Might the same thing happen to Trump’s plan to raise banana and coffee prices? And if the key to selling policy is to cloak it in populist language (tariffs, Medicare) could Biden shake up the race by updating his agenda with ideas that unite the Democratic base and appeal to the public more broadly? We hope you’ll upgrade to paid so you can enjoy the whole episode, especially if you’re listening from the White House or Biden campaign headquarters!

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0:00.0	Trump just ignored him and was like meatball rhyme he's putting with his hands he's a loser. Hey everyone you're listening to a free preview of the politics podcast this week we're going to dive into key questions surrounding Donald Trump's policy agenda such as it is
0:20.0	so how it'll raise costs and lower incomes to regular people in order to funnel more money to the wealthy.
0:27.0	We're also going to look at why, for now at least, this agenda hasn't created huge political problems for him.
0:34.0	And what if anything that says about the viable policy spectrum for Democrats.
0:40.0	We hope you enjoy the conversation, and if you want to hear more about these topics you can upgrade your subscription to paid at politics.
0:50.0	F.M.
0:52.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the politics podcast. I'm Brian Boiler.
0:56.5	I'm Matthew Iglesias. So to Matt's real and lasting credit, he has been trying
1:01.0	hard for several weeks now, I think, to get people to notice that when you
1:05.3	burrow past the jargon into the details, Donald Trump is proposing essentially a huge sales tax and other measures that will exacerbate prices.
1:17.0	Basically, the public has a very sticky concern about prices and Donald Trump's agenda
1:21.0	will tend to push them higher.
1:23.0	Except, it seems like because he uses the word
1:27.0	tariff instead of tax or sales tax
1:30.4	and the word immigrants or animals instead of workers, he's not taking much if any
1:36.6	political heat for what the implications of his agenda are. So to me that raises
1:50.4	related questions of how influential policy positioning really is over election outcomes if you can just kind of blow past
1:55.4	What your policies mean by playing funny word games the way Trump is. So we wanted to lay out how Trump's agenda actually works and then look at whether or not
2:00.6	this is creating any issues for him with the electorate and if not does that mean
2:04.8	the Democrats can do something goofy like revive single-payer health care so
2:09.6	long as they they give it some clever name like Medicare Part E.
2:14.0	Yeah, I mean, you know, I guess the sort of simplest version of this is Trump has been running around.
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