Not realistic and notice that he doesn't mention housing or health care. You can live on a starvation diet and it doesn't mean you can get ahead.

Underneath all this is a class war. It's why the Republicans want their base fighting the class war so that they don't notice the economic war eating their families alive. Culture war issues do not effect pocket books. The working class and what is left of the middle class are hurting financially. Trump said it was because the game is rigged, and he knew it because he took advantage of it. His success was blaming "liberal elites" for it and somehow convinced his base that he would help them. Really, it's old money, the kind that hates unions and protects their interests by financing Republican causes and candidates. In history, there has never really been a middle class, just the rich and the poor. It seems that much of the conservative goal is to return to that. They want their power with no limits from law.

You should have some understanding of the class wars stoked by the Oligarchs of America and anti-government Libertarians, who support the conservative candidates that make American Capitalism so brutal. It is leading to a situation where not just housing and health care have become unaffordable, but families are becoming unaffordable as well. It is the outcome of the economic war on the middle class. The best description comes from former United States Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich.