> what the other guy said which was misleading at best

Current inflation is a fuckup [1]. Pretending it doesn’t exist is a fuckup. They aren’t unprecedented fuckups. But they are consistently punished.

Inflation is exceptionally high right now for a developed country. It’s feeding into cost-of-living issues that are animating voters.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/cpi/ 7.2 annualized in September