Trump’s tariff-driven price spikes are bleeding into his own base and reshaping the political map.
The GOP’s internal dependency on Trump traps its candidates in a message that voters increasingly don’t believe.
Congress’s abandonment of its constitutional power over tariffs has enabled an economic crisis with real electoral consequences.
Rick Wilson and Andrew Wilson crack open the political physics of an economy dragged down by tariffs, and the picture they trace is one where the numbers stop obeying the old partisan rules.
Their insistence that affordability now functions as the central stress point of American politics reframes the conversation away from slogans and toward the lived arithmetic of families who can’t escape the rising cost of basic goods.
It’s a reminder that economic policy is never abstract—every tariff becomes a thumb on someone’s scale, and the pressure is now landing hardest in places Republicans once treated as unshakeable.
When voters tie their shrinking paycheck to a president who’s expanding his own ballroom, the disconnect becomes moral, not just mathematical.
Tune in to this breakdown of how economic gravity is finally asserting itself.
