Trump: This issue could be Democrats' secret weapon, if they can figure out how to use it.

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As Democrats gear up for next year’s midterm elections, they have one big gun they’re ready to wield: Opposition to Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The bill is a massive giveaway to the wealthy, paid for by big cuts to services used by the American working and middle classes, that seems set to plunge the country into economic peril. The OBBBA is indefensible, and it’s a gift to Democrats—assuming they’re able to point their weapon in the right direction.

Over the past several years, that is a task at which they have spectacularly failed. The reality is this: Democratic policies are much more popular than Republican ones, but Democrats lose anyway. Democ