Owning Inflation
I don't think you can discount criticisms about the current rate of inflation. You can rationalize that it's going back down, or, you can talk about it in historical context, longitudinally, etc. But the pain is real and, fair or not, the buck stops at the President's desk.
We need to own what is legitimately ours, explain the why and then highlight the other factors - like price gouging - and what we propose to do about it.I was at odds with my fellow progressives about their trashing of Joe Manchin when he balked at injecting even more money into the economy. He feared it would fuel inflation. He made sense and I said so.
It's easy for some to forget, however, that Biden inherited an economy in freefall with the prospect of a depression unlike any other. His bold measures saved this country.
You can bet your bottom dollars that no Republican would have done that. The same people that are raising hell about inflation right now are the ones that were the beneficiaries of Biden's initiatives - like extended unemployment benefits, PPP, etc. In their darkest hour, our collective darkest hour, he saved us. Like it or not.
