Not surprisingly, the 2024 presidential campaign is like any other presidential campaign under a Democratic administration. After four years of deliberately going out of her way to destroy America as we know it, the presumptive Democratic nominee is now lying about the administration’s track record and proposing solutions that are worse than a Band-Aid to stop the bleeding.
Perfect example:
As RedState reported Thursday, Harris is proposing what her campaign calls “the first nationwide ban on price gouging on food and groceries. It would establish clear rules to make it clear that large corporations cannot unfairly exploit consumers to make excessive profits on food and groceries.”
“Price gouging.” Along with “usury,” another favorite scapegoat of the Democrats.
Bidenomics and Bidenflation have hurt tens of millions of hard-working Americans throughout the Biden administration. What are Democratic politicians doing while food prices remain stubbornly high and even continue to rise in some categories? Naturally, they look for a scapegoat, and who better to blame than evil corporations? What better trick than pitting Americans struggling to survive against faceless corporations?
Even the Washington Post published a op-ed on Thursday with the title “If your opponent calls you a communist, maybe you shouldn’t propose price controls?”
Also on Thursday, British author and conservative political commentator Douglas Murray formulated the crucial question in the 2024 presidential election – and in all presidential elections – in right perspectiveand it couldn’t be more extreme.
Kamala Harris believes she knows what choice the public will have in November. It’s a question of going “forward” or “backward.” Knowing the nature of the times, the Democratic candidate insists that America should choose to move forward this November.
In fact, it would be good if this country could return to the economy we had before Kamala Harris and Joe Biden came into office. Because the most consequential decision in this election is between left and right economic policies. Between the economic policies of Biden-Harris and the economic policies of Donald Trump.
In some areas of life, the line between left and right is fluid. In the economy, however, the difference is clear.
Boom.
Murray couldn’t be more exact. Disagree? Name one area — only one — where this country and its influence in the world are better off than when Donald Trump left office. I will wait.
Murray then made the “clear difference” clear.
It is about those who want to expand the economy and those who want to expand the state.
The details are equally clear: less regulation, freer markets, fewer restrictions, and certainly no price controls – and certainly not price controls designed to put a Band-Aid on the gaping wound caused by your own policies.
“For once,” Murray wrote, “we can judge candidates not by their words but by their actions,” adding, “Unfortunately, this is not good news for Kamala Harris.”
Today, the vice president is trying to add more substance to her economic plans, which reportedly include efforts to make housing more affordable, lower the cost of living for families, promote miniature businesses and combat “corporate excess.”
The last point is merely an ingratiating argument from the left.
Those who want to rouse the left wing base can always point to the huge, bad capitalists and their excessive salaries as the problem, as if anything done to change top salaries on Wall Street would benefit the American working class.
But as for their other proposals, we don’t need to judge how well Harris and Trump might do. We can judge them by what they’ve already done.
Murray further pointed out that during Trump’s four years in office, wages of ordinary American workers saw their highest augment in over a decade, and that the pace of wage growth outpaced the salaries of their bosses.
He also noted that Democrats liked to pretend that Trump’s tax cuts only helped the opulent, which he called “simply untrue.”
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017) not only massively boosted economic growth, but also provided the average taxpayer with a tax cut of around $1,500.
“Kamala Harris may enjoy talking about minority communities and how much the government needs to help them,” Murray wrote, “but when Trump was in the White House, he helped African Americans and others help themselves.”
During the first three years of Trump’s presidency, median household income increased by 15.4 percent for black Americans and 11.5 percent for white Americans.
Barack Obama may have had great words, but just compare his results with Trump’s.
Between 2009 and 2015, Obama was responsible for an economy in which, over a six-year period, median household income for black Americans rose by just 2.3 percent and for white Americans by 4.4 percent.
And what about Biden-Harris?
Between June 2021 and June 2022 alone, the real average hourly wage fell by a whopping 3.6%. This is what the Biden-Harris economy looks like.
While Democrats talk about equality and racial justice, the reality under Trump was an economy in which 400,000 recent black workers entered the U.S. economy each year. By comparison, under Obama the average was only 250,000 each year.
The most essential issue Republicans can push now is not just how well the economy did under Trump, but how badly it did under Biden-Harris.
Murray was right, of course, in everything he said. But the ugly truth is this:
The Democratic Party’s recipe for success in presidential elections is for left-wing elitists to exploit (and lie to) ill-informed, useful idiots among the Democratic rank-and-file electorate. Yes, it really is that elementary.
