The Awkward Spectacle of Power Explaining Away Pain Last week’s prime time address wasn’t a victory lap. It was a lecture. For nearly twenty minutes, the president spoke at the public, not to it—waving charts, cherry-picking metrics, and acting genuinely offended that Americans aren’t buying the story that everything is fine. That’s always the tell. When politicians start yelling about statistics, it’s because reality isn’t cooperating. You can rearrange the data any way you want, but you can’t argue people out of empty grocery carts or shrinking paychecks. Inflation doesn’t disappear because the slope on a graph flattens. Prices that already jumped don’t politely walk back down just because the rate of increase slows. People know this instinctively. That’s why…
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