{"id":1709697,"date":"2022-10-25T06:07:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T10:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709697"},"modified":"2022-10-25T06:51:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T10:51:14","slug":"liberals-argue-voters-being-concerned-about-the-economy-means-death-of-what-they-think-democracy-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberals-argue-voters-being-concerned-about-the-economy-means-death-of-what-they-think-democracy-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberals Argue Voters Being Concerned About the Economy Means Death of What They Think Democracy Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fliberals-argue-voters-being-concerned-about-the-economy-means-death-of-what-they-think-democracy-is%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709697&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/25065113\/90-100\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Political campaigns have been grappling with whether <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abortion\">abortion<\/a> or <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/inflation\">inflation <\/a>and the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/economy\">economy <\/a>will be more important in deciding the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/midterms\">midterm elections<\/a>, but the Left wants Nov. 8 to be about something else entirely: saving democracy.<\/p>\n<p>A few influential progressive voices go so far as to suggest that there is something wrong with <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/faith-freedom-self-reliance\/biden-wants-to-fight-inflation-by-building-a-better-america\">prioritizing inflation<\/a> or <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gas-prices\">gas prices <\/a>since <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/faith-freedom-self-reliance\/biden-mostly-ignores-electoral-count-act-while-warning-democracy-in-danger\">democracy is at stake<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo sad that gas prices could decide democracy\u2019s fate and our republic\u2019s survival but that\u2019s where we are!\u201d tweeted longtime legal scholar Laurence Tribe, who emerged as a major <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/york-trump-opponents-style-themselves-the-resistance\">Resistance <\/a>figure under former President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/democrats-no-limits-abortion-roe\">THE DEMOCRATS\u2019 EMBRACE OF A NO-LIMITS ABORTION STANCE ISN\u2019T A DEPARTURE FROM ROE<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe find ourselves in a situation where keeping gas prices low is key to preserving and strengthening the future of our democracy,\u201d said MSNBC host Chris Hayes when President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> decided to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/courage-strength-optimism\/biden-15-million-barrel-emergency-reserves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tap<\/a> the Strategic Petroleum Reserve again. \u201cAnd so here we are. Hence, Biden releasing oil from the reserves today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill the price of gasoline \u2014 a price that has very little to do with which party controls the government \u2014 nonetheless determine the outcome of the midterm elections, and quite possibly the fate of American democracy?\u201d <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/10\/20\/opinion\/will-gas-prices-doom-democracy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked<\/a> <i>New York Times <\/i>columnist Paul Krugman, an economist, in a piece titled \u201cWill gas prices doom democracy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lesser known commentators who are influential with the online Left have taken this talking point and run with it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiterally democracy cannot survive in this atmosphere, but, hey, gas prices!\u201d tweeted MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States is facing the greatest danger to its constitutional system since at least the 1950s, if not the *18*50s, and millions of people are like: Yeah, but gas, man,\u201d <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RadioFreeTom\/status\/1583680430011998209\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> Never Trump conservative Tom Nichols, who writes for the <i>Atlantic<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne party invited &#038; directed a violent insurrection to circumvent the peaceful transfer of power,\u201d opined television writer Bryan Behar. \u201cGas &#038; egg prices matter. Of course. But none of this s**t is going to matter if you don\u2019t have a functioning democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ever the voice of reason, the former congressman turned Never Trump influencer Joe Walsh wrote, \u201cThe American people are capable of caring about BOTH rising gas prices and our teetering democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president has made <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/biden-trump-maga-republicans-midterm-elections\">safeguarding democracy<\/a> from Trump and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/biden-maga-republicans-fascism\">MAGA Republicans<\/a>, with a variety of modifiers ranging from \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/bidens-ultra-maga-attack-is-product-of-six-month-study-led-by-anita-dunn\">ultra<\/a>\u201d to \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/biden-mega-maga-trickle-down-crash\">mega<\/a>,\u201d a big part of his midterm election messaging. He has also argued that inflation is not as bad as most people think and that gas prices are steadily improving thanks to his policies. Many elected Democrats ding Republicans for unanimously opposing the spending bill they titled the Inflation Reduction Act.<\/p>\n<p>What Biden has never done is argue that inflation and gas prices are a trivial or selfish concern. Any Democrat hoping to win in November should look to the White House rather than Twitter, at least for as long as it remains true.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and his team made ignoring the online Left a point of pride during the 2020 campaign. It first helped them beat a slew of progressive candidates in the Democratic primaries. It then played a role in defeating Trump even as Democrats lost seats in the House and fought Republicans to a tie in the Senate as more left-wing themes like \u201cdefund the police\u201d <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2021\/03\/david-shor-2020-democrats-autopsy-hispanic-vote-midterms-trump-gop.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cost Biden\u2019s party<\/a> votes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a conversation that\u2019s going on on Twitter that they don\u2019t care about,\u201d a Democratic strategist told <i>Politico <\/i>in 2020. \u201cThey won the primary by ignoring all of that. The Biden campaign does not care about the critical race theory-intersectional left that has taken over places like the <i>New York Times<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But this year, Biden is being interviewed by transgender TikTok stars less than a month before the election. He is also <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/biden-mega-maga-trickle-down-crash\">increasingly lashing out <\/a>as Republican victories appear likely. Veteran Democratic operatives are <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/2022\/10\/21\/a_memo_to_democrats_582745.html\">counseling<\/a> a stronger message on inflation and the economy.<\/p>\n<p>NBC News has been <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/a-new-poll-and-threats-to-democracy\">including <\/a>\u201cthreats to democracy\u201d in its polling on voters\u2019 election priorities. The network\u2019s latest survey shows that 21% view it as their top concern.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Democrats <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/democrats-spent-millions-boosting-far-right-candidates\">helped promote<\/a> Republicans who, among other things, refused to accept the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2020-elections\">2020 election results<\/a> when they were seen as weaker general election candidates. Some of their own claims about Georgia\u2019s voting law, where the 2022 Democratic nominee was reluctant to accept her 2018 defeat, have <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/op-eds\/biden-must-apologize-for-his-jim-crow-hoax\">not aged well<\/a>. And these Twitter hot takes seem rather dismissive of voters\u2019 actual choices in democratic elections.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/democrats-no-limits-abortion-roe\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE IN THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The cost of food, clothing, shelter, and transportation are legitimate objects of public concern. An older generation of liberal Democrats would have understood this and believed the government should do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>Those older Democrats won a lot of elections.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political campaigns have been grappling with whether abortion or inflation and the economy will be more important in deciding the midterm elections, but the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1709700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}