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the home front. I'm your host, Reid Galen. Today I'm coming to you solo because I want to talk about

how the war in Iran is affecting us here at home. So I wrote something over on my substack that I want to share with you today,

and I call it the Trumpian doom loop. And the subhead is the administration's actions are

snowballing beyond their control, and we will suffer for it. So a few weeks ago, I wrote that

Donald Trump and his administration had opened Pandora's box one too many times and the

furies were loose. Last weekend, the Trump and the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, decided to be

wagged by Israel's tail into an open-ended, poorly planned with Iran. In the process, the U.S.

kicked over yet another's hornet's nest in the Middle East,

a habit we haven't unlearned as a result of two decades' worth of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Now we have six dead Americans, thousands of dead civilians across the region,

dwindling armament stocks, the Strait of Hormuz closed,

and countries in the region shutting down

energy extraction facilities for lack of transport for their products. The effects of the Trump

administration's weakness, fecklessness, and incompetence have set what I call the Trumpian doomloot

spinning. Uncertainty drives lower productivity, higher inflation, lower consumer

spending, and dampens hiring as companies hold off until they have a better sense of the

world. These will all continue. So here's what's happening. First on the home front. At home,

Trump has already made life harder for individual Americans by implementing across-the-board

tariffs on foreign imports.

Obamacare premiums have skyrocketed, causing more than 1 million Americans to drop off the exchanges altogether.

Rural hospitals are shutting down right at the time emergency rooms will be utilized as primary care

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