Every demagogue needs a scapegoat to blame for the people’s hardship. For the Biden-Harris administration, that need is particularly acute because the massive inflation of the past few years, and still-too-high inflation of today, can fairly be pinned on their brazen overspending.
People are particularly upset about the high prices of food, where prices have risen by 22% in President Joe Biden’s 3 1/2 years — the same increase we saw in the previous 10 years combined.
The obvious scapegoat for Democratic demagogues is corporate greed in the food sector. “Americans are facing sky-high food prices, caused by excessive price gouging by food and grocery giants,” declared Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) in a statement blaming inflation on “corporate greed.”
Warren, who knows better, has been banging this drum for a while. Now Vice President Kamala…
