“Child Care Is, Well, It's Child Care…”

Politicians are so insulated from the problems of real people.

Here is Trump, talking to some Wall Street types in NYC yesterday, with some liberal commentary on top of it:

If you recall the first Prez debate — the one that ended Biden’s public career, in other words — Jake Tapper also asked a question about child care, and Trump and Biden started debating their golf games in that answer.

The whole “replacement rate” thing is a current moral panic, with guys like Peter Thiel out there saying there will be no humans in 991 years.

Could Society End In 991 Years?

While that’s probably not true, the reality is that children are expensive, and child care is especially expensive (most parents I know bemoan this, or rely on a network of caregivers, I.e. what J.D. Vance would…