Suit of the Week: Ann Taylor

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stylish professional woman wears navy and white plaid petite suit

For busy working women, the suit is often the easiest outfit to throw on in the morning. In general, this feature is not about interview suits for women, which should be as classic and basic as you get — instead, this feature is about the slightly different suit that is fashionable, yet professional. Also: check out our big roundup for the best women's suits of 2025!

If you like patterns, Ann Taylor has two great contenders for Suit of the Week: I'm ultimately going for this pretty navy and white plaid one (pictured above), in part because it has a fabulous matching square-necked sheath dress to go with it. (The other one, a black and white, is a bit bolder.)

The wide flared pants here look perfect if you like those — but they're definitely a look. I'm curious — if your first suits were in the ankle pants era of the aughts, are you wearing flared and wide legs now — and if so, how are you wearing them?

The suit pieces here are $139-$198, and available in sizes 00-18 and 00P-16P. (Ann Taylor is one of our favorite sources for petite suits — we just updated our big roundup this week!)

Hunting for a suit in a print or pattern? As of 2025, for more traditional prints, Ann Taylor has a great navy plaid as well as a black and white plaid. M.M.LaFleur has a lovely houndstooth option, a plaid, and a black-and-white check; J.Crew also has a number of striped suits, and Brooks Brothers has a surprisingly nice paisley corduroy suit (also on sale). For plus sizes, we love this polka dot suit from Eloquii!

Sales of note for 2/7/25:

  • Nordstrom – Winter Sale, up to 60% off! 7850 new markdowns for women
  • Ann Taylor – Extra 25% off your $175+ purchase — and $30 of full-price pants and denim
  • Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 15% off
  • Boden – 15% off new season styles
  • Eloquii – 60% off 100s of styles
  • J.Crew – Extra 50% off all sale styles
  • J.Crew Factory – 40% off everything including new arrivals + extra 20% off $125+
  • Rothy's – Final Few: Up to 40% off last-chance styles
  • Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
  • Talbots – 40% off one item + free shipping on $150+

131 Comments

  1. I just want to vent. My conservative brother worked for years as an electric engineer specifically in the coal industry. Last year, he lost his job after his company was trying to turn to greener alternatives and he blamed Biden/politics for losing his job. It’s been almost a year and he has yet to get another one. He gripes that Biden gutted his industry and there are no jobs for him.

    Fast forward to now – I am a probationary fed on the chopping block. He, his wife, and even my mom (who all voted for the Cheeto) are all comparing it to when he lost his job, saying things like “yeah it’s really not right that an administration can cause job loss for people!” This makes me rage. 1) Biden did not fire my brother the way Trump is literally about to fire me right now, and 2) my brother had years to get into a more sustainable area. It’s not like all electric engineers have to work in coal.

    End rant.

    1. There are more substantial differences that make your brother’s position stronger than yours, namely, that gutting an entire private sector industry is more wrong than trimming fat from ya taxpayer funded workforce.

      1. I unskilled into my federal job, into an area that claims to have great need. I guess we’ll see if I survive my probationary period. I also wasn’t picky about location and took the job that was offered, moving at my own expense. Her man baby brother could have done any or all of those things just like I did. If he was smart enough to complete an EE degree, he can get reskill for a similar area of work. He’d just rather pout.

        1. Given that my neighbour in Canada gets flown to Boston on rotation because they can’t find enough electrical engineers in wind and hydro, your brother 100% could have retooled. Electricity is electricity whether it is wind, coal, or hydro generated. Yes electrical engineering is more specialized than that, but plenty of people retool for changes in their industry all the time.

          1. My BIL is an electrical engineer and has built a great career working with various forms of sustainable energy.

        2. My degree is in Electrical Engineering. OP’s brother’s situation baffles me. She has every right to rant and he is definitely pouting in a corner. Sure it might be difficult to find an equivalent engineering job close to home or at the same pay range as his last job. Industry wide, it’s getting more common for engineering (especially in the power space) to be a higher travel job than it was in the past. But there are plenty of power EE jobs and other adjacent jobs out there.

    2. I’m sorry. This really sucks. I’d be livid, too, if that’s how my family reacted.

    3. My company can’t find enough electrical engineers! We build power plants, renewable and gas and the grid. The BIL isn’t smart or he isn’t being flexible like moving or doing some basic high level training to learn about the other industries.

      1. Right? Unless he lives somewhere coal is literally the only industry, I can’t believe it’s taken him a year to get a job.

    4. OP, your family are jerks. Frankly, I’d go no contact but I have a low low threshold these days since you have to be a decent person for me to maintain contact…

      1. OP, please do not leap to ‘no contact’ because of one disagreement about how your brother/family frames these situations. You don’t have to throw away blood relations because of different perspectives or different politics. If there is more, okay, but I really hate this current trend of “If we can’t agree on everything, I will be dead to you (unless and until I decide.)”

        1. okay, but voting for the Cheeto goes beyond differing opinions on fiscal policy. It isn’t different perspectives or different politics. It’s a question of whether certain groups have a right to exist (spoiler, they do). A vote for the cheeto is enough to go NC in my book.

          1. Ditto. Your vote for him directly threatens me, my loved ones and my livelihood. It’s not abstract and it’s not a policy disagreement. It is existential.

          2. Sorry, I’m not going NC on my elderly parents who live in a red state just because they voted for a jackass. It would mean even more work for my sister, who lives on their street and helps them do stuff. Everyone has their own threshold, but the practical effect in my world would mean placing a burden on someone I love very much and already has enough to do.

        2. You know what? OP doesn’t have to put up with garbage people in her life just because they are related by blood. In spite of what white supremacists spout, there is nothing magical about blood.

        3. 4:54 is right. Also I’m not willing to let him take family members I love. Can’t take my joy, can’t take my people.

    5. I’d lean in to this being Trump’s fault – maybe they’ll never acknowledge that Biden didn’t cause Brother to lose his job, but at least they can acknowledge that trump is causing you to lose yours. “Yeah, I guess this is what you get from a guy who trademarked the phrase ‘You’re Fired'” …

    6. People are really stupid and bitter over government jobs. I went to law school thinking I would be a public defender. DH family acted as though I was too dumb or lazy to get any other job – people can’t fathom that criminal law is a fascinating and rewarding field despite the low pay and crazy hours. A few years later, I had sufficiently advanced to where I was making a good salary in my office and SOMEHOW THIS MADE THEM MADDER! They resented paying taxes that would afford the mother of their grandchild a living wage.

      1. Like those people who only consider the private sector to be legitimate employers, and anyone who is a public servant is somehow “on welfare.”

  2. I haven’t been sick in a very long time. DH is positive for flu A and is down for the count on day 3. He has tamiflu. I’m now feeling all the symptoms just in the last few hours while at work. His dr had some reservations about prescribing it (idk why). His doc is not my doc, and I’m waiting for mine to call back as I know you need to get tamiflu early. But is there any baseline reason I shouldn’t want it? Is there some generally known reason a doctor might be weird about prescribing it? Just want to have convo with my doc informed and I’m not finding anything on Dr Go o gle.

    And because I’m a total moron and I want to say this in to the anonymous void, his diagnosis reminded me that I never got a flu shot this year (see: two littles, stressful job and just… i missed it). Naturally I made sure everyone else did. If we’re both down for the count I have no idea how we’ll get through the next few days. Only way out is through. Only way out is through. TIA.

    1. Hesitation for Tamiflu is that a lot of people experience significantly bothersome side effects for modest benefit. As of last week, the CDC had a webpage with a list of currently approved flu antivirals–you could Google to see if it’s still there. One of those may be better for you–it’s worth asking your doctor. If one looks like a likely candidate, it’s worth calling around to pharmacies to see which local one has what you’re likely to be prescribed in stock.

    2. His doc probably had reservations because you don’t have an established patient relationship.

      I wish you luck!

      1. LOL. I’m pretty sure she meant his doctor had reservations about prescribing Tamiflu to him. No where does she say she asked his dr to prescribe it for her.

        1. I do see how that was unclear. No, I didn’t ask his doc for an rx. His doc was weird about prescribing it to him.

          Nevertheless, I got it and about to take my first dose. Thanks, all. Stay healthy.

    3. Tamiflu makes some people very sick (vomiting, etc). My daughter, speaking from experience, says that she’d much rather tough out the flu than suffer the side effects from Tamiflu. Others on this board have made the same remarks.

    4. The efficacy of Tamiflu has been debated in evidence based medicine contexts like Cochrane, but is there any reason your doctor wouldn’t prescribe Xofluza instead if they’re not sure about Tamiflu?

    5. FWIW, Flu A has been running rampant amongst my circle of friends, kids’ friends and colleagues in NYC and getting the flu shot does not appear to have made any difference based on my small sample size (aka most everyone was vaccinated and still got hit pretty hard). I think it is a particularly virulent strain and this year’s vaccine was not particularly effective against it. So the moral of my story is don’t beat yourself up too much about missing your flu shot.

      Sorry, I don’t have any knowledge re Tamiflu.

    6. I’m in the same boat. Kid 1 has it, everyone but me got a flu shot for all the same reasons as you and I am just waiting until I inevitably get it. I did get TamiFlu for when it happens so I could be ready. No issues from my doctor other than it makes some people nauseous and I should stop if that happens. My kid has been on it so far with no side effects. FWIW, her version of Flu A hasn’t been too bad so far, either, maybe on account of the flu shot. Hopefully yours won’t be too bad either. It’s just the season for this stuff.

    7. It’s just not very effective and not effective at all if you don’t take it right away (first 48 hours).

    8. One vote in favor of Tamiflu. I went down with Flu A two days after our neighbor did. I was sick for about 4 days total with no meds (1.5 days badly sick, rest of the time tired/feverish/snotty). She also did not get vaccinated this year and was literally unable to leave her bed for a solid 5 days and was almost hospitalized. This year’s strain is bad and hitting people harder than it seems to in the past.

    9. I took Tamiflu once and will never do it again. It made me vomit, hallucinate and contemplate taking my own life. I had to call my sister and ask her to stay with me.

      1. I’ll never take it. I feel there are better alternatives now anyway.

        I’m sorry you went through this; people often really underestimate how bad drug side effects can be (especially psychiatric ones).

    10. It caused nausea for both my kids. But, it drastically shortened the flu timespan so I’d say its worth it. Doc prescribed Zofran for the nausea so you may want to look into that if you are prone to nausea.

  3. I’m wearing them, but the bummer for me is that we’re back to having to hem our pants for a specific shoe. Loved that aspect of ankle pants.

    1. Same. But I really forgot how much I love the look of a proper trouser hitting in the perfect spot. It’s worth the trip to the tailor for me. For whatever reason I’m grumpier about hemming jeans.

      1. Don’t get me started on jeans with unfinished hems. Like at least try, even if I have to hem it later.

        1. Unfinished hems on current pants are not a signal to the buyer to get them hemmed at their preferred length, we didn’t bother. They are a fashion choice, a trend. Certainly you can choose to hem them, but that isn’t the intention.

          1. No, they are a signal to the consumer that the manufacturer can’t even be bothered to spend the pennies required to finish the hem. It’s about as much of a fashion choice as using only man made/plastic fabrics.

          2. Well, consumers who want new outfits every week and don’t want to pay $$$ for them have something to do with the market, too.

  4. Has anyone here who has mostly not eaten red meat gone back to eating it? I have never eaten much of it but now eating it more as I find it is the easiest way to get my protein (and I enjoy it!) but have such a hard time digesting it, I often am stuffed/bloated for 24 hours after. Does it ever get better and is there something I can do to help?

    1. Do you mean your belly looks bloated or that you feel full? Those are two different things. Feeling full from a good protein intake is normal.

      How do you usually eat your beef? If it’s in a pasta sauce or a hamburger, could it be the wheat that’s bloating you? I’m not gluten intolerant but I find in middle age that a wheat heavy meal leads to more bloating so I do more rice and potatoes and less pasta than I used to.

      1. Sometimes to get proper nutrition, people have to change their diets. All of us are different.

        For me, I would never get enough nutrition on a vegan diet without stuffing myself until I feel disgusting and bloated, and then adding a bunch of high protein powder processed supplements. I also gained weight and feel poorly.

        I completely agree that meat/chicken/fish are so efficient in delivering protein and nutrients (iron!), and are well tolerated by most folks.

        We’re not all the same.

    2. A bit of a tangent, but do you like chicken? It’s generally leaner and has more protein per pound than red meat.

      You might also look at the fat percentage in the red meat you choose. I find there’s a big difference in my bloating between 80/20 ground beef and leaner ratios like 90/10 or 93/7. Filet mignon sits better than fattier cuts like NY strip or prime rib.

      You might also look at what you’re pairing it with. If you’re trying to eat healthy and including more fibrous veggies, like roasted broccoli, it might not be the meat that’s causing the bloating.

    3. I stopped eating red meat because it made me throw up. I don’t think you can easily go back once you’ve quit.

      1. interesting, I was a strict vegetarian for 11 years (and vegan for 4 of those years) – when I went back to eating meat (including a lot of red meat) it made me feel great. I am sort of glad I didn’t know some people had a problem with it because I feel like I could have talked myself into having an issue with it. I do eat only grassfed cattle that my brother raises himself; I wonder if that changes anything.

        1. Similar experience here. I was vegan for 10 years and then vegetarian for 5ish. Went back to eating beef, pork, chicken and fish. I didn’t realize how ill and weak I had felt on a the vegetarian diets until I had been eating meat for a few months and I lost weight, gained muscle and finally had energy again.

    4. I had several friends who were raised vegetarian and no, I don’t think you can really adjust to eating red meat — it hasn’t worked for any of them.

    5. Chicken and fish are both cleaner forms of protein and easier to digest. I was vegetarian for 10 years and have had no trouble starting eating chicken and fish again, but red meat makes me bloated for a day after I eat it.

      Red meat can also lead to higher cholesterol and heart disease, and isn’t good for your liver. I’d stick to other types of protein if your body is rejecting red meat, since the long-term health effects can be net negative.

    6. I think you really have to ease into it, and stay away from the fattier cuts. Maybe doesn’t need to be says, but just in case – make sure you’re chewing plenty and eating vegetables with your meat. Also keep reasonable expectations – I don’t know anyone who’s ready for a swim after eating a big steak. Processing red meat is just harder for a body than processing a salad, so it sits with you different.

    7. My body works very well on red meat, my preferred ones are lamb, beef (pasture raised, grass fed) and game like moose or reindeer.

      I digest both minced and whole cuts very well, but in my teens my body preferred minced. I prefer the fatty cuts.

      For me the leaner cuts of pork are less digestible, but slow-cooked fatty ones fine, like pork belly, and pulled.

      Grains make me very bloated, though, especially pasta and commercially processed breads, rolls and similar. And starchy, processed grain based food or snacks is the only thing that can make me constipated.

    8. I have mostly been a lifelong vegetarian. I have eaten red meat maybe 10 times and it had never bothered my stomach. It is more filling though so I’ve only eaten small portions. I think the lose your ability to digest it thing may be an urban myth?

  5. Have family over the weekend and looking for recipes that will feed a crowd/are good for leftovers.

    1. Chili with cornbread. You can make two kinds – I like one Turkey and one veggie – or just a giant batch of one, and have a bar of toppings for people to fix as they like.

    2. Is it grilling weather where you are? Marinated and grilled chicken with vegetable skewers?

      1. And if it isn’t grilling weather, that means it’s soup season! Big fan of soup and bread to feed a crowd, assuming no gluten sensitivities among them.

        1. This plus salad, put the toppings and dressings separate.
          And add some grilled or “grilled” chicken breasts
          That’s a meal

    3. Soup and salad and bread; stew and salad and bread; lasagna and salad and bread; frittata and salad and bread

      Enchiladas, taco bar

      Rice bowls & peanut sauce with a bunch of chopped up veggies & peanuts they can put in it

    4. An overnight strata for breakfast/brunch, or look up microwaved scrambled eggs for a crowd online. Also, toasted bagels with cream cheese and lox, and more. Muffins, brownies, oven-fried bacon, fruit salad (one container blueberries, one container blackberries, 2-3 kiwis, peeled and chunked, mix and sprinkle with honey and squeezed lime juice). Enjoy!

  6. Any sources for formal, vintage-style dresses? I’m firmly a J.Crew/Orvis/LL Bean person, but I have a black tie optional event coming up and I have it in my head that I want to wear a 1950s style party dress – full skirt, sleeveless, tea length, satin/jacquard/dressy fabric. I’ve checked all the usual department stores, Etsy, A ma zon, eBay, poshmark, and I just can’t find what I want. (And I’m a size 14, so I can’t wear actual vintage.) Are there any niche websites that I don’t know about? Thanks.

    1. Check out skirts at shopburu dot com. They often have matching tops so you can get a dress that way. Also, my kid uses a cheap tulle skirt as a hoop skirt assist for a similar look without an actual hoop skirt.

    2. I bought a dress like that from Ted Baker but it wasn’t cheap. For size 14, I think you would need the TB size 5. Good luck!

    3. It might be too casual, but you could try the Wells dress by Staud. I think you could dress it up with the right shoes and jewelry. It comes in a ton of colors, but unfortunately no satins at the moment.

    4. Heartmycloset is a vintage style Etsy store that does made to measure of vintage styles–for next time. It usually takes about a month to get a dress in, but when I was a similar size the dresses fit absolutely beautifully.

    5. Phase Eight, a British brand, is good for party dresses with retro details. Good customer service and they ship quickly.

      1. +1 for Phase Eight, look at the Clarisse dress.

        And look at the Mikado styles at Adrianna Papell.

        Hobbs usually has some fit and flare dresses as well, the Rhea is beautiful.

      1. Was going to recommend Adrianna Papell. I have several of her dresses that fit what you’re looking for.

    6. In your shoes, I’d find a seamstress / tailor to make it for me. Start with browsing sewing patterns.

    7. I wore a dress like this to my son’s bar mitzvah, I got it from Poshmark I think, it had long sleeves and was all one color with sequins. I did buy a petticoat slip to make the skirt fuller and it hit just right. I’m plus size, it was a new dress, not real vintage

  7. I am glad that full-length suit pants have come back, but I can’t bring myself to buy any of the shoddily tailored polyester and/or unlined suits that are currently on the market.

  8. How will I know when my parent is on a cognitive decline? What were the first signs, if you have been through this?

    My mom is not showing any obvious signs, but she is in her mid-80s and I am afraid I’ll miss them. She is well-educated but extremely trusting, a trait she sees as a virtue attributable to her small-town upbringing. Sometimes I’ll be shocked that she doesn’t question something she’s told (nothing political or major, just neighborhood gossip) and I’ll wonder if she’s losing it, but she has always been this way and would call me cynical for questioning.

    1. Not every elderly person develops cognitive decline. As my father’s physical health declined in his mid-90s, his thought processes were slower, but he was still sharp mentally. If she has always been this way, most likely she’s not declining.

    2. Some of the first signs are financial or life maintenance. Keeping up with the scheduling, going to, and paying for regular haircuts, dental eye and medical appointments, keeping the fridge stocked with food (and throwing out bad food), and maintaining and wearing clothing appropriate for the situation.
      My MIL had about 10 stories she liked to tell and told them over and over for many years. So for her, repeating herself was not a symptom of dementia (although by the time she had demntial and the 10 stories got jumbled up and repeated on a loop, oh boy). An early symptom for her was that she’d come to family events in odd clothing (a yard work t-shirt paired with a dinner out cardigan for instance) when previously she would have chosen her clothing carefully as sharing event photos with her friends was fun for her.

      1. A lot of these things can be depression or other mental health issues, not just dementia.

        1. Or even one of several common autoimmune diseases if not diagnosed or treated yet.

    3. My 96 year old neighbor whipped right through a cottage-core mystery I gave her in two days, so I would second the suggestion that cognitive decline isn’t inevitable.

      1. This. Of the 8 parents between my husband and I, only one of them has mental decline and they’re all 80s and 90s. It doesn’t happen to everyone.

    4. It’s pretty hard to miss. My grandmother started asking questions like “where are we going?” over and over again on a short drive to dinner, and that was many years before she needed memory care and almost a decade before she stopped recognizing us.

      Also big +1 that not every old person has cognitive decline. My husband’s grandfather lived to 95 sharp as a tack and my other grandmother died in her early 90s with no serious cognitive issues (she was a horrible woman and my dad and I joked that her meanness kept her sharp — it was like she sucked the life force out of everyone around her).

    5. Take them out of their routine and see what happens.

      In my case, Grandma-in-law did a weekend away with us for a cousin’s bridal shower. She was incredibly confused a lot of the time, had a handful of very out of character comments about people from the past, asked for the newspaper several times that was on her lap, etc. A bridesmaid was an internist so has enough working knowledge to opine but not her specialty. She called it on the spot that it was signs of early dementia. Family heavily denied, esp her sons/the uncles who did not witness. 6 years later she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and a few years after that passed away. Bridesmaid says loss of routine can put cognitive decline on blast. I’ve never forgotten that weekend away and watching the progression over the years.

      Meanwhile, I have a 102 year old aunt who, if she could only hear better, she’d run cognitive laps around the best of us. It’s incredibly how people age differently.

      1. My mother’s brilliant, organized, highly educated childhood friend developed Alzheimers at a young age, around 68. A few years before her family reported she was losing her memory, my father, visiting from overseas, noticed she was unable to organize her family’s move from one house to another. My parents and another visiting friend managed the packing while she just stood there. My father felt strongly that something was wrong.

    6. I think it may be hard to tell in short phone calls. Only during visits where you spend more time with her, seeing her daily routine, would you notice the difficulties.

      Your example would not jump out at me as being concerning.

      Difficulty managing her bills/appointments, becoming more isolated, her vocabulary becoming more stunted, getting lost while driving etc.. would all make me want to come visit and see what’s going on.

    7. not bathing uncharacteristically, driving somewhere familiar and not knowing how to get somewhere or how to get back home, relative is trying to take advantage of mom financially and she is allowing it, off the charts anxiety or addicted loved one is stealing her anxiety meds and no one realizes it at first, not liking water on the head such as standing in the shower and not wanting to shampoo with water running on head or not liking the wind on face/head such as being outside on a windy day (this is confirmed by people who work w dementia patients), gait changes including foot drop which may or may not cause stumbling, seeming normal in the morning and not sharp late in the day termed sundowners -when they are tired at the end of the day they start to fall apart

      1. I had almost all of this with pernicious anemia in my thirties (all of it except being taken advantage of financially). Sometimes I wonder if I ever would have been diagnosed if I’d been older since the symptoms overlap so much.

        1. Usually when a doctor diagnoses dementia they rule out many other less serious physical causes, like anemia and thyroid imbalances, first. It’s kind of a diagnosis of exclusion since there isn’t a way to officially confirm it except through brain autopsy after death.

          1. Doctors inaccurately “ruled out” this diagnosis for me years before I was more thoroughly tested. That’s how it got so bad in the first place.

  9. I’m tired already.

    Pulling out of Paris Climate change agreement I expected, but also pulling out of WHO, plus trapping pre-approved Afghan refugees outside the country, and cancelling CDC science communications, and closing DEI offices and firing staff by the end of today. It’s so much.

    1. It’s absolutely a lot, but no one paying attention expected anything different or better.

      1. I expected them to at least stick to their own commitments, which was probably naive. Like letting approved refugees arrive until January 27th vs January 22nd. I can’t imagine the stress of families stuck in transit. I hate that he freed the January 6th offenders and then blocked the Afghans who were approved, vetted and had risk their lives to help us.

      2. Why does it matter what anyone expected? She’s allowed to feel upset regardless of whether it’s surprising or not.

        1. She can feel upset. No one is stopping her. A lot of us did our grieving in November.

    2. This country will get what it voted for, is all I can say. It’s sad, and I am really not coping well.

    3. Maybe the bright side is people will realize that elections have real consequences.

        1. I’m not here to defend Trump voters, but there were many people who did not fully understand the ramifications of their support. They voted based on sound bites and vibes.

          1. Agree. The number of people’s whose families will be affected by his deportation efforts who supported him is but one example.

          2. Look, there may be specific, individual policy choices Trump voters will disagree with, but overall Trump voters knew damn well what kind of man they were electing and that’s exactly why they did it.

          3. Agree with 3:47. I’d bet most trump voters would still support him after he deported their own mother.

          1. Yep. Today somebody on our neighborhood FB page tried to post instructions on reporting undocumented people to ICE. Thankfully our admin is a decent human and denied the post.

      1. These are the exact consequences that the majority of voters wanted. If a Trump administration was going to galvinize people into change, it would have done so the first time around. The thing that makes me most sad and pessimisstic for the future is that this time it’s not a mistake.

        1. That’s where i’m at too. There was no mistaking what Trump is this time around.

          1. Yes and no. So many people still think “we survived last time, what’s the big deal.” There is a reason that he lost only very engaged and informed voters.

        2. Yes, he’s keeping his campaign promises. His voters were even promised that things would get worse before they got better; they’re not expecting the price of eggs to plummet right now and they don’t think a leopard is eating their face. They’re thrilled. And most will find someone else to blame if things go very badly for them.

          1. Well, not really keeping ALL his campaign promises. How does revoking the provisions allowing Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices and $2 copays for generic drug prescriptions lower the cost of eggs? It was never about the cost of goods, was it? It’s all so shameful and un-American.

          2. He doesn’t want Biden to get credit for anything. Remember when they fought over lowering the price of insulin? They both had an argument there. I don’t know if this administration will negotiate lower drug prices or not, but revoking the previous administration’s EO doesn’t tell me the answer.

    4. We are allowed to be tired and heartsick, but we also have to stay strong and keep letting our government (at all levels) know that we are here, we are paying attention, we don’t like what we see, and we vote.
      And yes, I’m struggling like everyone else who did not vote for the current President, but I’m trying to stop being paralyzed by grief. This morning I stumbled across the video “How Tyranny Begins” on the NY Times website (link in another comment). It’s sobering.

    5. Let’s not forget his cancelling of BIden’s EO allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices. So, in his inauguration speech, he says that US healthcare is the most expensive in the world (true!) but then he immediately implements a policy that leads to higher health care costs. Makes NOOOOOO sense but yes, the voters got what they wanted, I guess?

      1. I think we’re all going to lose our minds if we take trump voters at their word. They’ll really don’t care about the price of eggs or prescriptions. They care about casual cruelty towards those they think are beneath them which they think will reestablish a social order they imagine existed in the past and made life easier for people like them. Actually lowering drug prices doesn’t matter.

        1. But weren’t there readers here who say the libs were tone deaf and we were the ones who did not understand how the public felt and why they supported Trump? They wanted us to know that they did in fact agree with his policies. I’m just pointing out that in this case, his actions a) conflict with his own inauguration speech and b) conflicts with his own stated policy of reducing health care costs. In this case, they are punishing themselves, not someone beneath them.

          1. I thought the EO didn’t add much on top of the Inflation Reduction Act? The media is reporting on this as though negotiating drug prices are just off the table, but that’s not my understanding at all. I guess we’ll see.

            He also cancelled Biden’s EO about AI data centers, and the headlines are crammed with news of his AI initiative. It didn’t mean that data centers weren’t happening.

          2. You’re right. And I think you know trumps actions will almost most certainly will hurt a lot of his voters. And I think you know that they’ll keep voting for him. And it’s only logically inconsistent if you take them, and the well meaning commenters here, at their word. Trump voters are completely consistent if you view their motives through my lens.

            For what it’s worth you’re preaching to the converted and I appreciate your points; please keep making them. But it’s not going anywhere with the trump voters. I truly believe that trumpism is will not be defeated by pointing out how his policies actually hurt those they purport to help by rather by articulating a vision for the future that appeals to Americans more than trump’s imagined vision of the past. Or whatever, “vibes” as the kids say.

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