Harold Wilson called it the pound in your pocket. Clinton’s advisor, James Carville, expressed the same sentiment in the immortal phrase: “it’s the economy, stupid.” Trump merely asked America a question and kept on asking it: ‘are you better off than you were four years ago?’ When people are feeling safe and secure or even safe-ish and secure-ish they don’t upset the status quo, but hit them with inflation and they actively look for change. It is a very basic fact of political life, yet it seems to have passed Kamala Harris by. Along with the economy, migration worries America and that means …
