During his closing monologue on Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher argued Democrats should have run on the economy being good and that while prices have gone up, “what caused the inflation was shutting the entire country down and paying everyone $6 trillion to stay home because a bad flu was going around, and Trump and Biden both did that.” But Biden “tamed” inflation.
Maher said that undecided voters “wanted more reassurance that the Democrat isn’t going to go along with every aggressively anti-common-sense idea that comes out of the woke mind virus, which, yes, is a thing. And if she loses, that will be mainly why. And part of that mind virus is progressophobia, Steven Pinker’s term for the liberal fear of ever admitting when things are actually good. As The Economist puts it about America today, ‘an economy with an unemployment rate of 4% and a per-person GDP of $85,000 does not have to be made great again; it is great.’ And yet, the economy is the Christmas Eve voters’ other big issue, and they think it’s terrible, when, actually, it’s bigger and better than ever. … When we were coming out of the pandemic, every…
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