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I feel like wages have stagnated too, but data says it has been keeping up (barely) with inflation: https://www.statista.com/chart/32428/inflation-and-wage-grow...

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q

That's what you call stagnating wages?

That chart is rough. Q3 2025 about equivalent to 5-6 years prior.

State and local governments care?

depends on the color of your skin in a lot of them.

They also don't care.

As you’d expect from the staggeringly low (by international, 1st world standards) turnout

The very first time I thought "That's it, Trump is done, it's over" is when he complained wages were too high in the US.

Clearly he thought it was a gaffe as he denied saying it shortly after saying it twice in two videotaped appearances. But he sailed on through that and many other misteps.

Everything he says ever, all the time, should be his undoing.

And with every 'next thing' the US moves further from any pretext of democracy or rule of law.