This is very good. However, it requires real discipline, including a confident break from past rhetoric. For example, on affordability, Democrats have fumbled the issue of stable prices many times. They revert to "price gouging" (e.g., Kamala blamed inflation on price gouging by grocery stores) and "market manipulation" (e.g., every time gasoline prices go up because the global price of oil increases, the domestic oil companies are investigated (especially in CA)). From a political perspective, a broad base of voters will have to be convinced that when Democrats advocate affordability, they don't mean economic nonsense like price controls and profit caps.
This is very good. However, it requires real discipline, including a confident break from past rhetoric. For example, on affordability, Democrats have fumbled the issue of stable prices many times. They revert to "price gouging" (e.g., Kamala blamed inflation on price gouging by grocery stores) and "market manipulation" (e.g., every time gasoline prices go up because the global price of oil increases, the domestic oil companies are investigated (especially in CA)). From a political perspective, a broad base of voters will have to be convinced that when Democrats advocate affordability, they don't mean economic nonsense like price controls and profit caps.