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red13n posted...

I'll say it for the thousandth time.

Gas prices are the eternal GOP boogeyman. They go up when people have money and are traveling at an increased rate but people are stupid and see them as a sign that things are awful.

Inflation is legitimately very high; iirc something like 6 or 7% for the past year, which is enough that real incomes have fallen even with very high nominal wage growth. Dems would be very dumb to handwave it away rather than trying to address it (the main problem afaik is actually that consumer demand for goods has skyrocketed and production, while also up, has not been able to keep up).