The debate over affordability is now truly and fully joined.

After the off-year elections, Democrats are coalescing around a cost-of-living message that makes more sense than their anti-Trump obsessions (not that we aren’t going to hear a lot about those). For its part, the White House has concluded that affordability is a vulnerability, and Trump has thrown out a raft of proposals to address it, from $2,000 tariff rebates to 50-year mortgages.

Health care will be a major front in this fight, a traditional Democratic policy strength that the party emphasized during the just-concluded government shutdown.

In isolation, the Democratic demand to extend Obamacare subsides in perpetuity shouldn’t be sustainable. The party’s position is, in effect, “We passed a sweeping health-care reform tha

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