"What do you want to feel throughout your day? ..., I can afford groceries, my rent/mortgage"
See my comment on "A causes B and C causes D." Everybody wants those outcomes, the question is what actions, in terms of policies implemented, cause those outcomes? One narrative that Republicans have promoted is that the unaffordability of groce…
"What do you want to feel throughout your day? ..., I can afford groceries, my rent/mortgage"
See my comment on "A causes B and C causes D." Everybody wants those outcomes, the question is what actions, in terms of policies implemented, cause those outcomes? One narrative that Republicans have promoted is that the unaffordability of groceries and rent/mortgage is the result of unrestrained shoveling out bennies to "the undeserving." Reality does not work like that.
That said, there is one problem with the Biden approach of emphasizing that inflation was so much higher elsewhere. There is a case that greater inflation elsewhere is reason that inflation should not sway one's vote, but the Democrats never made it.
The problem is that their case was implicitly that voters should not care about the prices they face because everyone elsewhere has it worse. That is not a winning message.
What they needed to do is press the point that there is nothing that can bring prices down. (On housing there actually is something that can be done, but it involves sacrificing community character in order to expand the housing stock, which many people are in denial about being the cost of reducing housing prices and is not a federal policy concern). The experiences of others should demonstrate that there is no alternative policy that would deflate prices, because if there was, someone would have implemented that alternative and thereby brought prices down. Donald Trump is a huckster, who always was a huckster, and will promise that he can magically defy reality. Don't believe him.
"What do you want to feel throughout your day? ..., I can afford groceries, my rent/mortgage"
See my comment on "A causes B and C causes D." Everybody wants those outcomes, the question is what actions, in terms of policies implemented, cause those outcomes? One narrative that Republicans have promoted is that the unaffordability of groceries and rent/mortgage is the result of unrestrained shoveling out bennies to "the undeserving." Reality does not work like that.
That said, there is one problem with the Biden approach of emphasizing that inflation was so much higher elsewhere. There is a case that greater inflation elsewhere is reason that inflation should not sway one's vote, but the Democrats never made it.
The problem is that their case was implicitly that voters should not care about the prices they face because everyone elsewhere has it worse. That is not a winning message.
What they needed to do is press the point that there is nothing that can bring prices down. (On housing there actually is something that can be done, but it involves sacrificing community character in order to expand the housing stock, which many people are in denial about being the cost of reducing housing prices and is not a federal policy concern). The experiences of others should demonstrate that there is no alternative policy that would deflate prices, because if there was, someone would have implemented that alternative and thereby brought prices down. Donald Trump is a huckster, who always was a huckster, and will promise that he can magically defy reality. Don't believe him.