Politico either advertently or inadvertently just exposed the Democrats’ grotesque hypocrisy in trying to yoke President Donald Trump to the inflation-plagued economy that his predecessor's insane spending policies created.
Politico State Policy reporter Liz Crampton managed to call out Democrat governors for doing an immediate switcheroo on the economy they just finished celebrating under former President Joe Biden.
“Democrats spent the last four years defending the economy. Now they’re turning it into a cudgel,” Crampton scolded in her lede paragraph. “It’s a dramatic swerve for a party that insisted for years that the economy was doing well and that Joe Biden had pulled off a soft landing on inflation.” In other words, this is a textbook case of what happens when you show your hand too early.
Perhaps Politico, which itself was adamant in October 2024 that Vice President Kamala Harris was riding, er, a “dream economy” into the 2024 presidential election, is still doing public relations penance for the scandal of taking millions in subscription payments by the U.S. government it was reporting on. Journalistic ethics be damned!
Crampton’s reporting follows a devastating admission published in Politico Magazine February 11 that “Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.” Crampton, apparently continuing the outlet’s mea culpa trend, conceded that this deceptive maneuver was political in nature: “[f]or Democrats, the turn to hammering on the economy is in part opportunistic — the luxury of governing as the party out of power in Washington.” She continued: “But it also is an acknowledgment that voters last year were far more frustrated with rising prices than many in the party anticipated.” That’s putting it mildly, to say the least.
Crampton implied that all this disingenuous economic posturing by left-wing politicos were just early attempts to kickstart their potential campaigns off for the 2028 presidential elections:
Democratic governors across the country in recent weeks have been using their state of the state addresses to empathize with Americans who say housing, groceries and child care have grown too expensive — and to blame Republicans for it one month into the president’s second term. It’s an effort by state leaders — whose class include many with 2028 presidential ambitions — to weaponize an issue that worked against Democrats in the 2024 elections.
One thing’s for sure: Despite Crampton having a red-pill moment by admitting the obvious about the left’s playbook to gaslight Americans on the disaster Bidenomics inflicted on the economy, Politico has a very long way to go before anyone takes it seriously again.
