“Affordability” is the Democratic Party’s talking point du jour, and unhappily for President Trump, it cannot be dismissed as a mere “con job,” as he suggested in a recent interview with FOX News’s Laura Ingraham.
While it is true that inflation is easing, the president’s crowing about it is cold comfort to many Americans who, after several years of compounded cost increases, are still struggling to make ends meet. The job market is brutal, especially for young white-collar workers replaced by AI. By far the steepest obstacle for most Americans is the astronomical cost of housing, which is locking entire generations out of wealth creation, family formation, and upward mobility.
Trump and his team seem to be struggling to find solutions. Proposals like a 50-year mortgage and a $2,000 tariff dividend may help limit pain for Republicans in the midterms, but they won’t fix the country’s core economic problems and could even make them worse. The truth is that the president can’t genuinely make things easier with a wave of a magic wand, despite what Trump’s campaign rhetoric suggests. However, he can take steps to slowly improve conditions.
Instead of leaving the affordability issue to regressive socialists, Trump and his team should focus on fulfilling his promise to drastically reduce immigration and argue that a less crowded America will be more livable and harmonious.
There is no denying that the artificially high demand from Third World immigration is placing enormous stress on mortgage and rental costs. It is simple supply and demand. Immigration also reduces housing options by negatively affecting the desirability of neighborhoods and driving people to leave places they now consider “foreign” in search of the familiar. Leftists are committed to this continued displacement, which they view as a positive good. In focusing only on solutions that address questions of overregulation and supply, they address only half the housing equation. Above all, they plan to continue inundating the country to swell their support base.
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