A large share of the responsibility for the Democrats losing the election is on the Dems themselves since they and their myrmidons spent more than three years gaslighting people about inflation. It was almost a religious quest for them. This certainly pissed me off and I barely give a fuck what anything costs. For someone where a price increase actually has consequences, this must’ve been actively infuriating.
“Don’t believe your lying eyes and your declining bank balance” is not a winning proposition. Now they and all of us are going to pay for that 3+ years of pettifogging and obliviousness.
And the sad thing is, it was all an unforced error. Clowns like Paul Krugman and all the others spent so many unnecessary hours writing a vast number of articles about how the rising cost of goods and services is all in your head and that no, those shelves aren’t empty — why, they are quite full in my Park Slope supermarket, how could they be empty anywhere?!?!? They could have just not done that. But no, they had to get those jabs in at the basket of deplorables who could no longer fill their baskets.
In large part, the Democrats did this to themselves. And they deserve much vitriol for that.
