It’s just a matter of time

| 8:00 pm EST December 14, 2024
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Whenever Democrats lose an election (and honestly, most of the time even when they win) there’s a chorus of voices that immediately know what they need to do next time that will automatically put them over the top.

The problem is that the advice is nearly always the same (be better at messaging, focus on the economy, go populist) – and a lot of it were things that the Democrats were actually doing pretty well on throughout the course of the election. A great deal of blame went to the cost of living – even though Republicans have been remarkably terrible on this issue time and again.

Now, Donald Trump is flat out admitting what was obvious all along: He has no interest in lowering prices and he never did. That’s why his campaign didn’t waste any time on actual plans that would lower them and he largely just threatened to do the opposite. This, of course, will probably have no impact on his most die-hard supporters, and we all know what they’re really with him to the end over: the racism and misogyny that actually drove them to the polls.

It’s worth pointing out, however, to the folks in the middle who largely didn’t pay attention to the election or politics last time that Donald Trump has pretty much abandoned what he was ranting about all last election: Grocery prices probably aren’t coming down. If anything, they’re only going to get worse as he keeps up the trade wars where he has no leverage – it’s just a matter of when it all falls apart.