When inflation started ticking up after Biden took office, he quickly blamed anyone and anything else. He blamed Donald Trump, the COVID-19 pandemic, and Big Oil, and none of those scapegoats worked. Then there was the classic prediction that inflation would be transitory.
Oops, it clearly wasn’t. On to the next narrative!
I’m not sure who advised him to do this, but he then tried to convince the public that the economy was actually in good shape and started touting the successes of “Bidenomics.” Not surprisingly, that didn’t work either. Telling people that everything is better under Biden when people can still clearly remember that prices were lower and conditions were generally better under Trump isn’t a winning strategy.
So what’s next? How do you improve your poll numbers on the economy after you’ve already taken ownership of it? You need another scapegoat. And Team Biden has decided to push the narrative that corporations are driving inflation and that if only they would cut prices, things would be even better.
“Today, we learned that annual inflation fell to its lowest level since March 2021 and monthly inflation was zero,” Biden noted in a statement…
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