September 25th, 2024.

In 2004, a senior advisor to President George W Bush famously told journalist Ron Susskind

that people like Susskind lived in the reality-based community. They believed people could find solutions to problems

through careful study of discernible reality. But the aid continued,

Susskind's worldview was obsolete. That's not the way the world really works

anymore, the aid said. We are an empire now and when we act we create our own

reality and while you're studying that reality judiciously as you will, we'll act

again creating other new realities, which you can study too. And that's how things will

sort out. We're history's actors, and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.

We appear to be in a moment when the reality-based community is challenging the ability of the Maga Republicans to create their own reality.

Central to the worldview of MagA Republicans is that Democrats are socialists who have

destroyed the American economy. Trump calls Harris a radical left Marxist communist

fascist and insists the economy is failing. In Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania today Harris laid out her three-pillar plan for an opportunity

economy.

She explained that she would lower costs by cutting taxes for the middle class, cutting the

red tape that stops housing construction, take on corporate landlords who are hiking rental prices, work with

builders and developers to construct 3 million new homes and rentals, and help first-time homebuyers

with $25,000 down payment assistance.

She also promised to enact a federal ban on corporate price gouging on groceries

and to cap prescription drug prices by negotiating with pharmaceutical companies.

Harris said she plans to invest in innovation by raising the deduction for

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