James Carville pithily summed up one of the key concepts that got Bill Clinton into the White House in 1992 (in addition to the damage done to George H. W. Bush by Ross Perot’s third-party candidacy): “It’s the economy, stupid.” Joe Biden may well discover that, “It was the economy, stupid,” is the epitaph carved into the tombstone of his one-term presidency. Inflation is surging again, and no amount of lies from Joe Biden will change that.

Biden is vaguely aware that inflation is an issue in this presidential election. To address it, he’s offered lies and sheer fantasy. In this selection of short videos from recent speeches and news reports, you see that everything Biden says about the economy is untrue:

It’s not just that things got bad under Biden, though. It’s that they’re still getting bad...and doing so very fast:

A key gauge of inflation surged by much more than expected in April, confirming that the pace of inflation has accelerated.

The producer price index for final demand, which measures the prices paid to U.S. businesses for their goods and services, rose by 2.2 percent in April, the Department of Labor said Thursday. Compared with a year ago, the index is up 2.2 percent, the largest increase in a year.

Economists had forecast a 0.3 percent gain in April compared with March and a 2.2 percent gain year-over-year.

America has extraordinary resources, whether one looks at its natural bounty, business infrastructure, or human potential. However, even the richest country can be brought to its knees when the government (whether federal or state) and corporate America do exceptionally stupid things, such as:

People are struggling badly thanks to all these misbegotten policies, all of which have the Democrat party at their back.

As Biden obsessively focuses on Israel—a telling thing because antisemites always obsessively focus on the Jews—the economy is getting worse and worse. At a certain point (God forbid), it’s going to go into the kind of tailspin from which there is no recovery or at least no immediate recovery.

The modern Democrat party is no longer a political entity; it’s a cult. And cults don’t behave rationally. Instead, when things don’t go their way, they commit suicide, as Jim Jones and his followers and the Heaven’s Gate people did. What’s worrisome is that when the Democrat cult swallows the Kool-Aid, it risks taking everything down with it.

Image by Andrea Widburg, using AI.