Republicans are scrambling to reclaim affordability. Good luck with that | Judith Levine

Two problems stand in the way of the party's efforts: their policies and their president

Try as they might to present Zohran Mamdani as the exemplar of their opponents' radical-left lunacy, the platform the New York mayor-elect and other Democrats won on was affordability - the same platform on which Trump ran, and has spectacularly failed to deliver.

So in their panic, Republicans are scrambling to reclaim affordability.

Judith Levine is a Brooklyn-based journalist, essayist and author of five books. Her Substack is Today in Fascism