2.9% = President Harris

On both The NY Times and Wall Street Journal's front page, the top story is "The One we've been waiting for": 

Inflation extended a run of cooler readings in July, sealing the case for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates at its meeting next month.

The consumer-price index rose 2.9% from a year earlier, the Labor Department said Wednesday, the lowest reading since 2021 and slightly below economists’ expectations of 3%.

That's from The Journal. The inflation news is second from top in The Washington Post.

With this news comes the election's deciding factor — right? The chief argument Republicans and their highest-ranking warlord have been making is that America is in ruins because of ravaging inflation.

Under Democrats the country has been reduced to swarms of starving paupers in tattered clothing; the U.S. is akin to the Weimar Republic of the early 1920s, when prices rose monthly by more than 300%. My depiction of their depiction is a trifle exaggerated, but not by much.

Now, only Republicans' argument lies in ruins. With inflation in the 2%+ range, no longer can they rant about bacon costing five times what it once was, as their math-addled warlord has claimed. Mothers begging for their infants' milk are history, as are fathers selling apples on cities' sidewalks.

In brief, the GOP's highest-flying propaganda has been shot down by reality. They still have those tens of millions of brown rapists and swarthy deathmongers flooding across the southern border, but half of a double-barreled assault on Dems just hasn't the same firepower.

So that's it, right? Republicans' destiny is doom in November, and that we know today, since the economy and above all inflation have been the main worries and complaints of your average lever-puller in the voting booth. That must be the case; good grief the good news is spread all over the front pages of America's national newspapers, thus Americans have been enlightened.

Well, that would be the case if Americans read newspapers or kept up with events via dozens of other reliable sources. But we know at least 35% to 40% of the electorate will never see The Times or WSJ's front page today, for they are the Trumpers repulsed by the real world.

They turn instead to Fox News or talk radio or Facebook feeds where nihilism is king and only Democratic catastrophes causing American carnage can brighten their days. And thank God for YouTube, where they can watch and obsessively rewatch clips of their diseased warlord assuring them that Hell itself lies right around the corner, should he be denied.      

And then there's another percentage of voters, a significant percentage, that's simply indifferent to civic affairs and consequently follows current events not at all. They do, however, occasionally learn of American happenings from their pro-warlord coworkers.    

Nevertheless, little by little the enlightenment gap narrows. Hence Harris-Walz's election will be taken up in November, even though the war should be over as of today. 

Comments

[Anne J]

They don't even have a strong argument about illegal immigration. Harris has already hit them over the head with that border bill that was bi-partisan but failed because Trump wanted an issue to run on.