The quote in the headline has been truncated somewhat from the source due to space limitations here. What “one GOP operative involved in drawing up the party’s midterm plans” actually said to Axios was “We don’t want Democrats making campaign ads about $8 Lucky Charms and grandma unable to get prescription drugs because of shortages from the tariffs,” adding “Voters care a ton, and Republicans need to talk more about fighting this,” in a separate bullet point.
Interesting that a party whose Dear Leader’s campaign put out signs saying simply “TRUMP: LOW PRICES – KAMALA: HIGH PRICES” doesn’t want the Democrats to do the same thing to them. You would think that, just throwing this out there, that they would have actually done something about it.
It’s almost as though tweets and propaganda pieces like these…
This is what happens when you declare war on U.S. domestic energy production. pic.twitter.com/QQ1DSc9Tid
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) June 2, 2022
.@timcast calls the $18 Big Mac combo meal at McDonald's "the apocalypse for Joe Biden." pic.twitter.com/J7evtybzAz
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) November 7, 2023
Grocery prices have risen over 20% under Comrade Kamala! pic.twitter.com/msPRhVRTBP
— GOP (@GOP) September 4, 2024
The open border is a huge part of why prices are so high. pic.twitter.com/ToTMqcN762
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) September 30, 2024
You can thank Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for Halloween candy prices being so expensive this year.
Along with everything else.
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) October 31, 2024
…were just celebratory fapping in anticipation of electoral victory rather than any even vague pledge to address the rising prices facing Americans. Like all that fapping was itself inflationary in a way that it increased the political cost of failing to deliver on their implied price-lowering agenda.
Instead Axios writes that “GOP strategists are aggressively pushing the party’s 2026 candidates to talk about inflation, which they worry hasn’t been part of many candidates’ messaging. They want candidates to describe the steps the party has taken to curb inflation — namely its passage of Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill,’ which they argue will ultimately lower consumer costs.” Axios didn’t even bother elaborating the minute points of this argument, whatever the fuck they’re supposed to be.
National Zero is working on an in-depth breakdown of the grocery items the fat fuck used as props during the infamous August 2024 Bedminster press conference, look for that as soon as Wednesday.