Opinion: Affordability is a winning message for Democrats. But there’s an even better one.

If Democrats can embrace what affordability is really about, they might do even more than win elections.

(Kimberly Elliott/The New York Times)

(Kimberly Elliott/The New York Times)

| Oct. 1, 2026, 12:00 p.m.

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