Democrats faux affordability agenda will cost Americans big time

Americans’ continued exasperation with the cost of living crisis is no hoax, but Democrats’ affordability theater is little more than a dubious con job.After watching Zohran Mamdani upset Andrew Cuomo in last year’s mayoral race, both radicals and relative moderates alike took the hint: Voters are desperate for candidates who speak to the frustration they feel at the gas pump, in the grocery line and after every utility payment.It’s a lesson they’ve taken to heart on the campaign trail this election cycle.Embattled Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer won’t shut up about his conference’s “affordability agenda,” and the progressive caucus in the House is pitching itself using the exact same phrase.“Democrats in Key Senate Races Campaign on Addressing GOP Affordability Crisis, Bringing Down Costs, and Making Life Easier,” crowed the wordy headline of a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee press release issued on Friday.Wait, whose affordability crisis?It’s easy to forget in the two-to-three-news-cycles-a-day Trump era, but runaway inflation is precisely what cost Democrats the White House and both chambers of Congress 22 months ago.Pent-up demand and supply chain issues stemming from the pandemic may have contributed to skyrocketing prices, but the Biden-Schumer-Pelosi spending spree made a bad situation much, much worse.In the opening months of their reign, they swiped taxpayers’ credit card for $1.9 trillion.Then, after months of denying the consequences of their actions, they finally admitted that something ought to be done about it.So they swiped again, this time running up a tab of well over $700 billion for what they dubbed the “Inflation Reduction Act.”That’s right, they dumped almost $3 trillion in cold hard cash into the economy under the supposition that would make everyone’s dollar go further.Supply and demand: What is it?Liberals’ unshakable confidence in their ability to spend themselves out of whatever economic ho...