Really important point. Worth spelling out clearly. 1. People want prices to come down. 2. The single best way to quickly reduce prices—not to slow the rate of inflation; to actually bring the general price level down, imminently—is to destroy growth. But while people might say they want the outcome of crushed inflation, I don't think they want the process, because that process probably looks like a recession. 3. The second-best thing you can do is reduce the rate of inflation, while incomes rise, in a growing economy. There are all sorts of ways to do that. Over time, and with enough even growth, that will feel like normalcy and stability. But in the short run, lower inflation doesn't feel like prices going down; it feels like prices going up because ... that's what it is. 4. Trump isn't doing anything useful to slow the rate of inflation *and* he's very clearly telegraphing to voters that he cares more about wealth accumulation, White House interior design, crypto corruption, and regime-change-on-a-lark. So what I'd say is that addressing America's affordability concerns is very very hard and also Trump isn't getting an B- on that test, or even a D-. He's not even showing up to the test. He's off doing crypto scams 1,000 miles from the exam room. If Trump talked about affordability and affordability policies half as much as Mamdani, even with stubborn inflation, I wonder if that would buy him approval points.