In 1992, James Carville coined the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid.” It’s still a priority today, but Trump’s solutions to the pesky economic challenges are little more than trumped up pigs in a poke to sell us a bill of goods. Can’t buy a first home? How about a 50 year mortgage? Lower monthly payments, but pay no attention to the fact that banks will likely charge higher interest, the total cost will increase 86% and the first ten years of payments cover interest and no equity. Need affordable health care? ACA is now offering catastrophic coverage (plans once limited to people under 30). Lower monthly payments (sound familiar?) but with a whopping $10,000 deductible. It’s gonna cost ya! Chris Bond, a spokesperson for AHIP, an insurance lobbying firm cautions, “catastrophic plans…are not a replacement for affordable comprehensive coverage.” And let’s not even get started on RFK’s “Miasma Theory,” his blast us back into the past approach to medicine that Amesh Adalja, MD at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Health Security, said is “all just obfuscation to support his idea that vaccines are not valuable." Pigs in a poke. A bill of goods. Don’t do us any favors. And the final insult? JD Vance, sensing Trump’s lame duck status, is suddenly in the picture, all unctuous empathy, addressing our concerns about the high cost of living, assuring us, “We hear you,” and we just need to “have a little patience.” Yeah, right. They might hear us, but they are not listening. It’s still the economy, but it’s their lame brain “solutions” that are the epitome of stupid.