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- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
The poll indicates support for the more aggressive position Newsom has taken in standing up to Donald Trump, particularly over a plan by Republicans in Texas to redraw their state’s congressional seat map in the hopes of winning more seats in midterm elections next year.
The battle to become the 2028 presidential election candidate will likely set the new direction for the Democratic Party as it struggles with net favorability at what one recent poll showed to be a three-year low. Newsom has not formally announced his candidacy.
As I said, the top concern among Democrats is inflation. Not ending capitalism.
I’m pretty sure I didn’t disagree with that. As I said, the Democrats should have done something about that when they had the chance.
They did. They reduced CPI below 3%, which means they fixed inflation.
That doesn’t mean they solved everyone’s problems. But they fixed what Democrats consider the biggest problem.
That’s not fixing inflation. That’s putting a bandaid on a broken leg, and calling it fixed. There are structural problems, that the Democrats pretty openly refuse to address.
If inflation is below 3%, there is no reason to lower it further. In fact it’s harmful to try, because it would require austerity measures that increase unemployment. So once it reaches that point, it is indeed fixed.
Well then, maybe they could fix the housing costs, or the food costs, or the education costs, or health-care costs. Or increase wages. You know the other things that voters care about that you keep ignoring.
Cost is not the same thing as inflation. When inflation is low, costs are stable.
Costs of consumer goods, which voters are most concerned about, were stable when Biden left office.
Oh, right. I must have zoned out when I said that… hrm… actually, I didn’t say that. Weird.
Voters are most concerned about price stability, aka inflation.
Prices were stable when Biden left office. They aren’t any more.