Americans Are About to Pay Even More at the Grocery Store

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14. It will not be good enough to simply win on the discontent of Americans for this situation...

...that Republicans have made worse. Democrats need to have actual plans to alleviate some of these cost pressures--many of which are out of anyone's control.

I'm not saying that Democrats do not have such plans. When your opponent is shooting themselves in the foot you do not get in the way.

But it is not going to be electorally beneficial in the 2028 cycle to have pulled a [REDACTED] and appear to be saying, "[l]ook, they got them up. I'd like to bring them down. It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard. But I think that they will." ( https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-yes-trump-said-005500635.html )

The reality is that tariffs and fuel prices are only a part of the reason for rising food costs, and there need to be some specific plans for how to deal with the stickier reasons for the increase: crop yields due to climate change, outbreaks of disease in farm animals, labor constraints, the cost of land and rent for grocery chains, non-fuel transportation issues, the estimated 16 billion pounds of food thrown away by grocery stores every year, etc.

Failure to fight hard for real change that the American people see will likely only result in a president Vance or Rubio in 2028.

Let's hope that is not the path we are on.