If historical revisionism were an addiction, the pompous charlatans in left-wing media would all be institutionalized.
The New Republic Editor Michael Tomasky came out with a bumptious screed lecturing Americans for not voting the correct way in his view: “When Will Americans Realize the Truth? Republicans Wreck the Economy.” Yes, he actually wrote that with a straight face and treated the 4 years of inflationary disaster under President Joe Biden as if they didn’t exist.
Tomasky doubled down on making himself look completely foolish by selling blue pills as if they were red pills: “Will 2026 finally be the year when a critical mass of Americans wakes up and realizes that Republicans always screw up the economy? I doubt it.”
So are Americans just supposed to memory-hole the then 40-year high inflation crisis brought on by Biden and the Federal Reserve’s multitrillion-dollar spending policies? How about when gas prices hit over $5 a gallon on average in 2022? For context, this spike happened without the massive intercontinental conflict in which the U.S. and Israel sought to dismantle Iran’s Islamist regime — even as Russia waged its regional war in Ukraine while Biden banned Russian oil imports. What’s crazy is that this is public record, and yet Tomasky still maintained the temerity to whine about how the Iran war “has shot gas prices up near $5 a gallon in most places.” Short-term memory or willful ignorance? You decide.
How about when the 30-year fixed mortgage rate went over seven percent at least twice under Biden and completely priced out younger Americans seeking to be first-time homebuyers? The America First Policy Institute noted in January 2025 that “the median age of first-time homebuyer[s] reach[ed] a record 40 years old.”
Tomasky didn’t address any of this, of course, including the damning statistic that more than half of Americans were struggling under Biden to pay their bills and save money, as Bloomberg News reported November 19, 2024. Instead, he had the audacity to spin how “Trump inherited an economy from Joe Biden that was perhaps not firing on all cylinders but was in pretty good shape all the same.” Maybe Tomasky would actually believe this if he had been living under a rock the past few years, and that may have well been the case, as his only apparent beef with Democrats was that they were not being effective enough in telling Americans the “truth” about Republicans:
The idea that the party of big business must surely be more trustworthy on economic policy just seems intuitively right to most, and the Democrats, in their typical way, have done a horrible job explaining this truth to people. Still—the evidence is getting hard to ignore, so perhaps there’s some hope.
The shamelessness here is unreal. In Tomasky’s view of the illusory positives of Bidenomics, “Real GDP grew at 2.8 percent in 2024. Wages were growing at a higher rate, 4.8 percent. Inflation closed out 2024 at 2.9 percent—high, but way down from the 7 percent of 2021.” But as always with narratives churned out from the left, the devil is in the details. With regards to GDP, Tomasky didn’t mention how much of that so-called growth was caused by a supernova-like explosion in government debt. As economist Daniel Lacalle wrote November 17, 2024, an “unsustainable increase in government spending and federal debt bloated the official GDP, making gross domestic income significantly weaker than headline GDP.”
As far as inflation is concerned, consumer prices had shot up 21 percent higher on average than when Biden first took office. But you wouldn’t know that reading Tomasky’s drivel. With regards to wages, the former Newsweek scribe was just being flat-out deceptive. Data from Statista released Inauguration Day 2025 found that the “largest blemish” on Biden’s legacy was that — *checks notes* — “Wages Haven't Kept Up With Inflation.” Go figure! His concluding flex reinforced his headline treating Americans who remember the years of Bidenflation as too dumb to know what’s good for them:
The Democrats need a 2028 standard-bearer who will say these things over and over until they get pounded into the heads of those famous low-information swing voters they end up relentlessly chasing after every fourth November. The lie has persisted long enough. If it takes $7 gas for people to realize it, I’ll happily pay it. Democrats—and reality—must bury this myth once and for all.
The Left is always blaming "low-information swing voters" for swinging the wrong way. Voting for the Democrats, in their upside-down world, somehow proves you're a "high-information voter."
