For the legions of cash-strapped shoppers wrestling with skyrocketing consumer prices, President Trump’s alleged Golden Age is an age wracked with debt.

Millions of seniors and families are shelling out more, for everything from medication and baby formula to furniture, electronics and food. More than three in four Americans now rate the U.S. economy as poor, and they blame Trump’s boneheaded trade policies for heaping pain upon pain.

They aren’t wrong. In fact, few stretches in American history have yielded price spirals as brutal or wide-ranging as those that define Trump’s first 10 months back in the White House.

This year will come to be known as the year everything in the country got more expensive. Voters can thank Republicans’ make-it-up-as-you-go economic ideas for all that extra grocery-bill heartburn.

Last month, Trump boldly declared that inflation was “defeated” and everything was back to normal. Does the latest round of price hikes feel normal to you? Analysts at the Harvard Business School Pricing Lab spent much of the year

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