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Right after Donald Trump was re-elected, we turned to you, our listeners, and asked,

what do you want to know? What do you want us to cover? Do you have

questions about tariffs or immigration or presidential control of the Federal Reserve or tax

cuts or, I don't know, any number of things? And we got a really, like, large number of questions.

But what we realized is we started to sift through this giant

metaphoric pile was that our inbox was filled with, yes, with letters, but also with

uncertainty and excitement and shock. This was not an ordinary bunch of questions. Like,

take this one from an academic historian.

So my name is Aaron Fountain, and I live in Maryland.

Our producer, Emma Paisley, called Aaron up.

Do you want to tell me about your question and why you decided to write into us?

So since the 2024 presidential election, many commentators in media have talked about how many voters voted for Trump because of economic anxiety and inequality.

But I'm curious, do people think that he can actually, you know, continue to address inequality and will it actually get better or will it get worse?

I will say with your question, we were like, we don't know. Like, your question is a hard question.

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