{"id":99394,"date":"2024-01-18T14:55:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T20:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=99394"},"modified":"2024-01-18T14:55:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T20:55:29","slug":"99394","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=99394","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0It\u2019s the groceries, stupid: Why the pundits are puzzled by Biden\u2019s putrid polls.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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By regularly griping about the supposed mystery of why so many voters say they prefer Donald Trump or another Republican, President Biden\u2019s pundit backers mainly expose their own elitist ignorance.<\/p>\n

Because if they\u2019d been shopping to feed their families these last few years, they would have noticed\u00a0the average grocery bill has shot up 25%<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And wage growth hasn\u2019t remotely kept pace: It rose less than inflation for Biden\u2019s first two years, and while the 2023 stats aren\u2019t final, it wasn\u2019t a ton better last year.<\/p>\n

Inflation has eased\u00a0some<\/em>\u00a0in recent months, but remains well above 3% \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0and may well spike back up as Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping\u00a0create new global supply-chain disruptions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Perhaps because they drive electric vehicles, the pro-Biden pundits may have missed the huge hike in pump prices on his watch \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0a daily nightmare\u00a0driven largely by his policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And while Democrats may find it convenient to forget, plenty of voters will recall how this president\u00a0spent months insisting<\/a> inflation was \u201ctransitory\u201d even as it was raging up toward 9%.<\/p>\n

Oh, and few pundits are all that young, so they also lack personal experience of how high interest rates (raised to combat Bidenflation) are a huge reason why buying a first home\u00a0is increasingly out of reach for the middle class<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All a huge contrast with the three pre-COVID Trump years, when median, inflation-adjusted incomes rose more than 10% \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0and lower-income earners made faster gains than they had in decades.<\/p>\n

Of course it\u2019s not just the economy: Anti-Biden voters also see the collapse of border enforcement \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0and are more likely to feel the impact of the illegal migrant surge than the nation\u2019s elites.<\/p>\n

Voters also likely recall the disaster that was Biden\u2019s bugout from Afghanistan (which he insists was a \u201csuccess\u201d) \u00a0\u2014 \u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0can\u2019t help noticing the major wars in Europe and the Middle East that erupted after that brutal sign of beyond-weak American leadership.<\/p>\n

Leadership that looks even weaker every time the fast-aging prez does any public speaking that doesn\u2019t involve a teleprompter (and sometimes even then).<\/p>\n

This president\u2019s poll ratings are under water on just about everything, and the reasons are pretty obvious to the average Joe and Jane.<\/p>\n

Bottom line: The pundit class\u2019 confusion over Biden\u2019s unpopularity is just one more proof of George Orwell\u2019s maxim: \u201cThere are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0It\u2019s the groceries, stupid: Why the pundits are puzzled by Biden\u2019s putrid polls. By regularly griping about the supposed mystery of why so many voters say they prefer Donald Trump or another Republican, President Biden\u2019s pundit backers mainly expose their own elitist ignorance. Because if they\u2019d been shopping to feed their families these last few … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-for-brains","category-economy","category-goobermint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99395,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99394\/revisions\/99395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}