The Case for Trump 2024: Inflation

How are Whit? vot?rs going to turn out in this election?

Make it about immigr?tion, crim?, and WW3, not the economy.

– Nick Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) pic.twitter.com/X6d6WhtIBr

— socksgrypr (@scksgrypr) August 18, 2024

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— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 20, 2024

Hakeem Jeffries says Americans “should be very pleased” with Kamala’s economy — in which overall costs are up 20.2% and rising, gas prices are up ~50%, mortgage rates have nearly tripled, and American families have lost $28K paying for the increased cost of living. pic.twitter.com/E9irYKNvFu

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 20, 2024

I am getting close to the end of this series.

I am only going to knock out a few more articles before I wrap this up. Then you will have a full and complete window into my view of the 2024 election.

As I have said in previous articles, I have been focused a lot more on work during the Biden years. Skyrocketing costs is one reason for that. Everything has become more expensive. It has never been my top issue, but it is a chronic aggravation to have less disposable income. My leisure time has been the major sacrifice which has made it more difficult for me to find the time to update this site.

It must be nice to live in a world of superchats where, say, the price of bacon and steak doesn’t matter. In my world, my wife goes grocery shopping every week and is always reminded that the same amount of money buys less than it used to. The power bill has gone up. The insurance bill has gone up. School tuition has gone up. It costs more to get an oil change or to pay for basic automobile repairs. Inflation exploded in early 2021 after Joe Biden was sworn into office and signed the American Rescue Plan into law. It was further aggravated when the Biden administration tried to cancel Russia in the world economy.

Objectively, life was more affordable when Trump was president before COVID hit. I know this is true because I can easily measure it by the amount of free time that I have available to update this site. The priority of covering rising costs in our household is always rated above reacting on this blog to this or that controversy of the day. I used to have plenty of time to bitch about, say, Trump’s tax policy which unlike Joe Biden’s inflation tsunami did not really have much of a personal impact on my life.

If it had not been for Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema committing career suicide to preserve the filibuster and put the brakes on the Biden inflation train, we would be living in the Weimar Republic or the last days of the Soviet Union right now. Kyle Kulinski wanted to “go big” and spend around $10 trillion dollars in the first year of the Biden presidency. Anand Giridharadas was hailing the dawn of a new progressive era. They had to settle for around $4 trillion between the Inflation Reduction Act, the American Rescue Plan and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The inflation bros predicted what would happen next. It was too hard of a political lift for Biden to pay for trillions of dollars of spending with new taxes on the rich and corporations. So the public ended up paying for it with the loss of their purchasing power.

To this day, the cope from the Left is that corporations became vastly more greedy shortly after Joe Biden was inaugurated as president. The inflation was caused by COVID era global supply chain issues or weird droughts and other climate change events around the world. The price of dozen eggs from domestic farms went through the roof because of corporate greed. My son’s private school tuition has gone way up, not because school supplies and costs have gone up, but because I guess the school is more greedy. Canceling Russia in the world economy also had nothing to do with skyrocketing grocery prices. Perhaps Trump needs to come back for corporations won’t be as greedy as they have been under Joe Biden?

The “worse is better” crowd have largely hailed the economic misery as the sort of strong medicine that is sorely needed to “wake people up.” Life has indeed gotten worse, but it is Trump who has harnessed the backlash. They propose that Trump should lose the 2024 election so that President Kamala Harris can further destroy the economy for Trump can run for president again in 2028. Maybe they will create a new National Socialist third party which will collapse due to infighting before the 2028 election. In that case, more strong medicine of economic pain will be needed until Americans come to their senses.

In any case, the economic aggravation created by inflation has put me in less of a mood to indulge in these fantasies, or to see what Kamala Harris plans to do to “fix” the problem. I would much rather just put up with Trump’s dumb shit for four years than go any further down this road. I don’t expect he will be able to repair the damage, but I do think he will be less willing to further aggravate it. 

As usual, the point of this article is to explain my own thinking because otherwise you would not understand the shifts in my position. I am not telling you to vote for Donald Trump. You are capable of making your own decisions. This is my attempt to flesh out my own inner monologue.

1. The Right finally moves on from Trump in 2028

2. The Alt-Right has terrible political instincts

3. Joe Biden has been a sedative as president

4. Activist brain blinds us and creates prejudice against conservative normies

5. Trump is the leader because he is the best of the Republicans

6. “Worse is better” is a cope and was tried in 2020 and maintains the status quo

7. Voting is not a sacrament. Few know this

8. Voting is not going to change anything about Zionism in the next four years

9. Activists have the chance to ride the Trump wave without making the same mistakes

10. Activists are running out of material because the Overton Window has shifted so much

11. Donald Trump is a hunted dog who has been backed into a corner

12. Donald Trump is a divider, not a uniter and his legacy will ultimately be useful for us

13. Winning is still better than losing at baseline

14. The Left is still the enemy and wants to take away our freedoms

15. The cause of anti-Zionism depends on internet free speech

16. Donald Trump is reviled by our elites because he is an obstacle to their agenda

17. Donald Trump’s Supreme Court appointments have been improving his legacy

18. The war in Ukraine showed that Biden is worse on foreign policy than Trump

19. Joe Biden’s economic policy and foreign policy unleashed a tsunami of inflation