Trump is the sort of like a moral sinister type person who like I would not be surprised if we learned

sometime after the fact that like affiliates of the Trump campaign were gaming out ways to gin up riots in Chicago during the Democratic Convention.

Yeah. Call me a conspiracy theorist if I'm disproven, but like it would be completely in

character and like I just don't feel like this facet of

of Trump's nihilism gets brought to bear on the discussion of like why did crime

go up in the first place on the Podcast. In this episode we discuss the enticing idea that Democrats can begin taking

victory lapse on two issues that have unfairly dogged them for the last several

months, the economy and crime. We're going to assess the origins of things like inflation

in the 2020 crime wave and the current state of affairs with as much nuance as we can, but also talk about where the outer limit of acceptable

partisan spin lies, since that's where Democrats should probably be spending most of their time.

I hope you enjoy the conversation, and if you want to hear the whole thing you can

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Hey everyone, welcome to the Politics Podcast. I'm Brian Boiler and I'm

Matthew Glacios. So since last we potted we received two I think important pieces

of news. First is that inflation in the most recent

government data came in below where we'd expect it to be for the Federal Reserve

to cut interest rates in pretty short order.

And second is it violent crime from FBI statistics

is way down from its Trump-Covid era highs.

It's even down well below where it was when Donald Trump took

office in 2017. So the two sets of questions we're interested in now are on

one hand should Joe Biden and Democrats take credit do a victory lab and

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