Peter Baker: Trump Said He Would Fight Inflation, Seal the Border, Bring Down Crime, But It’s All ‘Actually Already Fixed’

EXCERPT:

BAKER: “Here’s one of the paradoxes of Trump taking over at this time, and Toluse and Hans referenced it in effect. He said he would fight inflation. He said he would seal the border. He said he would bring down crime. All three of those are actually already fixed, more or less. Inflation is back to normal. Prices haven’t come down, and you don’t actually want prices to come down from where they are now because it gets you to deflation. But inflation — “

DESJARDINS: “But people are still feeling that. There is still a problem.”

BAKER: “It is a problem, but the problem is you can’t — the solution to actually bringing prices down is not actually what any economist would advocate you do. They would want you to moderate the inflation rate, which has happened, and make wages go up, which is actually happening, right? The border crossings now are at a low point to where they were when Trump left office. And crime, which he says is sky-high and he’s going to fix, is actually at a years-long low. So, he actually, in some ways, is inheriting a situation very adverse to what he said he was going to be fixing because it’s already at a place where he needs to fix. “

(via RealClearPolitics)