On Saturday, Legal Insurrection posted an article about the rather quick pivot Democrats did after they won Congressional seats and Governor-ships in the midterm election. Somehow affordability is no longer front and center.
The article reports:
Democrats spent the better part of two years pounding the Trump administration over the spike in prices caused by President Trump’s ill-conceived tariffs and his war of choice with Iran.
Americans were hurting, and boy, did they feel their pain. Elect them to bring down prices.
It was always a disingenuous message considering that inflation hit a 40-year high during the Biden years. In fact, during the 2022 midterm cycle, inflation reached 9.1% in June, and stood at 7.7% when voters went to the polls in November. As I wrote earlier this week:
The roughly 21% cumulative increase in prices during Biden’s presidency did not disappear when Trump took office; those higher costs became the starting point for his administration. Yet Democrats and the toxic legacy media have focused relentlessly on the 3.7% inflation under Trump, giving no attention to the burden he inherited.
Voters who believed that Democrats would — or even could — do anything to lower prices were deceived. It took about a nanosecond for Democrats to forget all about affordability and pivot to their real priorities, chief among them securing sanctuary cities and opening investigations against Department of Homeland Security officials.
Democratic mayors across America are going all-in on efforts to shield illegal aliens from deportation. Many are pledging to revive and expand sanctuary policies, vowing to limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities and resist the Trump administration’s deportation efforts.
Among this group is DSA-backed Los Angeles Mayor-elect Nithya Raman. She has pledged to make Los Angeles the strongest and most secure sanctuary city in the country, building upon the city’s existing legislative and policy framework.
So let’s look at some of the possible reasons the Democrats might have for wanting to keep illegal aliens in the country. In 1966, sociologists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven developed a strategy to create a political crisis by overloading the welfare system, ultimately leading to a guaranteed annual income and an end to poverty. Overloading the system was a step toward a socialist (communist) government. A large majority of the illegal aliens in America are getting some sort of government benefit–housing, food stamps, etc. There is also the matter of votes. If the voting rolls can be kept unsecured enough to let noncitizens vote, the Democrats assume those noncitizens will vote to keep their benefits flowing.
The article notes:
On Friday, Fox News reported:
Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., who is poised to lead the House Oversight Committee, responded to Democrats’ win Tuesday with a statement: “Lawyer Up”, despite having pledged to prioritize household costs alongside government accountability.
Garcia told CNN before the election that “Democratic priorities” would be lowering the cost of “gas, groceries, the mortgage, the rent,” alongside combating government corruption.
Before the election, “Squad” Rep. Delia Ramirez, D-Ill., wrote in a PBS-Chicago voters guide that there is “no question that the rising cost of living is the number one issue” for a “working people’s agenda.”
After the election, however, her tone appeared to change:
“Noem, Markwayne, Miller, Homan, Bovino, what’s up? Clear your schedule,” Ramirez said.
That doesn’t sound like affordability is their first priority!