{"id":80915,"date":"2026-11-04T17:55:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T22:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/as-australia-ponders-how-to-deal-with-a-castrated-trump-administration-one-lesson-is-clear-its-the-economy-stupid-zoe-daniel\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T17:55:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T22:55:04","slug":"as-australia-ponders-how-to-deal-with-a-castrated-trump-administration-one-lesson-is-clear-its-the-economy-stupid-zoe-daniel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/as-australia-ponders-how-to-deal-with-a-castrated-trump-administration-one-lesson-is-clear-its-the-economy-stupid-zoe-daniel\/","title":{"rendered":"As Australia ponders how to deal with a castrated Trump administration, one lesson is clear: \u2018It\u2019s the economy, stupid\u2019 | Zoe Daniel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s crushing defeat in the US midterms over cost-of-living pressures is a warning for politicians closer to home<\/p>\n<p>Fascinating, isn\u2019t it, that for all that Donald Trump has got away with, it\u2019s arguably the cost of fuel that\u2019s finally led to an absolute rout in the midterms.<\/p>\n<p>So many Americans held their noses at so many other things, but in the end his own decision-making on Iran will haunt the rest of his presidency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/nov\/05\/as-australia-ponders-how-to-deal-with-a-castrated-trump-administration-one-lesson-is-clear-its-the-economy-stupid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump\u2019s crushing defeat in the US midterms over cost-of-living pressures is a warning for politicians closer to home Fascinating, isn\u2019t it, that for all that Donald Trump has got away with, it\u2019s arguably the cost of fuel that\u2019s finally led to an absolute rout in the midterms. So many Americans held their noses at &#8230; <a title=\"As Australia ponders how to deal with a castrated Trump administration, one lesson is clear: \u2018It\u2019s the economy, stupid\u2019 | Zoe Daniel\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/as-australia-ponders-how-to-deal-with-a-castrated-trump-administration-one-lesson-is-clear-its-the-economy-stupid-zoe-daniel\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about As Australia ponders how to deal with a castrated Trump administration, one lesson is clear: \u2018It\u2019s the economy, stupid\u2019 | Zoe Daniel\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}