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The one reality check a Trump voter didn't want to hear

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A July 2026 CNN/SSRS poll found that 71 percent of Americans believe Trump and his regime have not gone far enough to lower the price of everyday goods, leaving the middle class screwed. A Trump-voting caller to my show yesterday, along these same lines, tried to mansplain to me that things really aren’t that bad, and that the numbers I’ve been using to describe the economic destruction by Reaganism are exaggerated. For years I’ve been documenting the destruction of the American middle class at the hands of the GOP and neoliberal politicians (including some corporate Democrats). I wrote about it extensively and did a deep dive into the problem and its causes in my books Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class , The Hidden History of the American Dream: The Demise of the Middle Class , The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America , and, just last month, Who Killed the American Dream? As a result of FDR’s New Deal and LBJ’s Great Society “socialist” prog