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Trump's latest inflation claim sends shockwaves through the Republican Party
Inflation as Performance, Accountability as CasualtyThe Real Actor in the RoomThe source story is simple enough: Trump stood in the Oval Office, praised inflation, and congressional Republicans scrambled to explain it away or talk around it. That is the only part that needs a summary, because the real story is not the price level. It is who can say almost anything in public and still force his own party to absorb the damage.Trump holds the actual institutional power here. He is the president. He was the one signing the bill, setting the tone, and deciding that inflation was something to joke…
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