Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said he isn’t buying all that Democratic “joy” on display at this past week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago during a Sunday appearance with Jake Tapper on CNN’s State of the Union.
During their conversation, Tapper brought up the “disciplined” and “well-produced” DNC this week that, as the journalist put it, “conveyed patriotism and unity.” Graham didn’t see it that way.
“Well, I didn’t see what you saw,” Graham told Tapper with a laugh. “If you’re a Republican, you saw a hate fest. You saw a hate fest full of insults.”
“Americans are not joyful when they go to the gas station and fill up their car,” he continued. “They’re not joyful when they make their mortgage payment. They’re not joyful when they go to the grocery store. People are hurting, and this whole joy love fest doesn’t exist in the real world.”
To bolster his claim, Graham pointed to the gas prices, the state of the border, and inflation during Donald Trump’s presidency when “the world was not on fire.”
He’s either lying or what he said gives us a look into his shitty perspective of the world. Either way such a miserable and pathetic existence.
The state of the border is due to Republican interference on that border bill specifically requested by Trump to keep it an issue this election, and Inflation performance was better overall when compared to other Western Nations during Biden’s term and worse than during Trumps.
Republicans are full of shit when it comes to both issues.
The problem with inflation is that it’s sticky i.e. the inflation that happened under Trump didn’t go away under Biden. Inflation has been slower (although you’ll notice it’s still elevated) but the inflation that already happened is baked in to that.
People can feel that things are more expensive than they used to be. It doesn’t matter that things are getting more expensive slower, what matters is a bunch of inflation already happened and it didn’t go away (and, in fact, just kept getting worse)
Tranditionally, inflation paired with rising income isn’t a big problem.
The real terror of inflation in the modern era is that wages remain stagnant.
Actually, real wages are up for six years running.
Not according to the Atlanta Fed.
Let me translate: The DNC was not joyful because it made MAGA fear and loath. He then pivots to project all this on the “American people” remembering that that’s who he’s supposed to care about.
Lindsey is a windsock; useful to see which way the wind is blowing.
