{"id":2683965,"date":"2026-10-14T15:06:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T19:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignnyt-op-ed-shows-why-voters-worried-about-affordability-should-be-wary-of-democrats\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T19:10:49","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignnyt-op-ed-shows-why-voters-worried-about-affordability-should-be-wary-of-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignnyt-op-ed-shows-why-voters-worried-about-affordability-should-be-wary-of-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters Worried About Affordability Should Be Wary Of Democrats"},"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\">18<\/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%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignnyt-op-ed-shows-why-voters-worried-about-affordability-should-be-wary-of-democrats%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=2683965&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--><p>The article warns that voting for Democrats based on promises of lower prices is misleading, as their true agenda involves significant opposition to Trump through lawfare, obstructing judicial appointments, and investigations into his administration. It highlights statements from opinion writer Jamelle bouie and various democratic politicians, such as Sherrod Brown and Ro Khanna, emphasizing plans to block Trump-related judicial confirmations and pursue impeachment, regardless of voters\u2019 affordability concerns. The piece cites examples from Virginia and other states where Democrats campaigned on economic issues but ultimately prioritized ideological obstruction and policy goals like promoting open borders and expanding social programs. It argues that Democrats\u2019 focus on affordability is largely a campaign myth designed to deceive voters,and that their actual policies would likely lead to increased taxes,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-households-expected-to-pay-higher-utility-bills-for-decades\/\" title=\"U.S. Households Expected to Pay Higher Utility Bills for Decades\">higher utility costs<\/a>,and diminished enforcement of border security. the article portrays Democratic efforts as centered on political lawfare rather than addressing Americans\u2019 economic hardships.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>For Americans considering voting Democrat because they want cheaper groceries and lower gas prices, a New York Times op-ed offers a warning about what a Democrat victory would <em>actually<\/em> deliver: another round of get-conservatives lawfare, resource-squandering impeachment witch hunts, and performative stonewalling of Trump\u2019s judicial nominees.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have spent months positioning themselves as the answer to Americans\u2019 affordability concerns. But voters \u2014 particularly independents, moderates, and frustrated Republicans \u2014 should pay attention to what Democrats say they would actually do with control of Congress. <\/p>\n<p>Writing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/14\/opinion\/democrats-midterms-trump-congress.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Times<\/a>, Jamelle Bouie says if Democrats win back the House and Senate, they \u201cwould have an opportunity not just to check the Trump administration but to neuter it: to halt the confirmation of new judges, to block the president\u2019s attempts to appoint more unqualified toadies to key offices and to focus the investigative fire of both chambers on every aspect of this White House.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bouie all but salivates at the prospect of lawfare, writing, \u201cShould Democrats find the will to do so, they could launch the kind of full-court press that no president has faced from the opposition since Barack Obama had to contend with a Republican Congress in the last two years of his administration. The difference is that Democrats will have real corruption and malfeasance to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bouie also warns Democrats against imagining they can have a \u201cconstructive relationship \u2026 with either Trump or the Republican Party over the next two years.\u201d Instead, Bouie suggests Democrats wield \u201cthe full suite of Congress\u2019s powers to constrain the president and restore constitutional government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a lot more words than needed, Bouie is arguing for a two-year-long lawfare campaign against the president and his agenda. Elect Democrats, and you\u2019ll get political lawfare, Bouie hopes. Voters anticipating a Democrat Congress would focus on affordability \u2014 which certainly would include working with Republicans and the president despite Bouie\u2019s desire for no bipartisan work \u2014 should be wary.<\/p>\n<p>And while Bouie is an opinion columnist, some of the very Democrats who campaign on affordability are also promising the same obstruction and lawfare that Bouie stumps for. <\/p>\n<p>Ohio Democrat Senate candidate Sherrod Brown recently <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SherrodBrown\/status\/2109087204467154954?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told voters<\/a>: \u201cI\u2019m in this fight to make life more affordable. Ohioans are working harder than ever and they deserve to get ahead.\u201d But appearing on MSNow, Brown also promised that no matter the qualifications of a candidate, a Democrat-controlled Senate will not confirm any Trump judges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not, obviously, confirming judges that are Trump judges,\u201d Brown <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JonathanTurley\/status\/2110365417055347165?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. How refusing to confirm a judge because Trump nominated him makes life more affordable for Ohioans is not clear, but what <em>is<\/em> clear is that Brown\u2019s focus isn\u2019t exactly on affordability. <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Ro Khanna has similarly framed this upcoming election as a referendum on affordability, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RoKhanna\/status\/2082492966409588993?s=20\">sayi<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RoKhanna\/status\/2082492966409588993?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RoKhanna\/status\/2082492966409588993?s=20\">g<\/a> in a post in July: \u201cAmerican families are paying $3500 more a year because of Trump\u2019s war in Iran, his blanket tariffs, and his tax breaks for the wealthy. We need Democrats back in power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet when asked in a Sept. 27 interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/transcripts\/meet-press-september-27-2026-rcna600077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Meet the Press<\/em> <\/a>if impeaching Trump for a third time would be \u201ca mistake,\u201d Khanna said, \u201cNo, it\u2019s not,\u201d and said impeachment would set a \u201cstandard.\u201d Khanna claimed Democrats could pursue impeachment and also focus on the cost of living.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats keep offering promises of political lawfare to stop Trump with vague assurances that they will make life more affordable. Voters can be frustrated with prices, disappointed in Republicans (for not doing enough), or unhappy with Trump without wanting to give Democrats two years to pursue lawfare. Democrats\u2019 affordability pitch is merely a mask for their real goals: obsessively obstructing Trump and ushering in their radical socialist plans,<strong> <\/strong>including <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/10\/13\/dems-push-medicare-for-illegals-after-claiming-medicare-for-illegals-was-a-gop-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">free health care for illegal aliens<\/a>, wide-open borders, and get-the-\u201crich\u201d schemes that will harm everyday Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia offers a warning about accepting the affordability pitch at face value. Last fall Abigail Spanberger <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/02\/25\/spanbergers-affordability-pitch-collapses-under-her-own-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">turned<\/a> the Virginia gubernatorial race into a referendum on affordability. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAffordability takes center stage in New Jersey, Virginia governor races,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/affordability-takes-center-stage-new-jersey-virginia-governor\/story?id=126900432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a>\u2019 Benjamin Siegel wrote on Nov. 2, 2025. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/10\/29\/spanberger-shutdown-affordability-00626470\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico\u2019s<\/a> Erin Doherty and Brakkton Booker wrote on Oct. 29, 2025, that \u201cSpangberger has stuck to a message on the economy, specifically the cost of life for Virginians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spanberger ultimatey won the race, and yet life has not gotten any more affordable in the commonwealth. July polling found that 47 percent of Virginians <a href=\"https:\/\/virginiamercury.com\/2026\/07\/17\/six-months-in-spanberger-defends-her-record-as-economic-concerns-persist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disapprove<\/a> of Spanberger (compared to 42 percent who approve), and affordability issues are still the leading concerns. The Democrat-led state government has put forward proposal after proposal that would raise taxes on everyday services like gym classes, dry cleaning, home repairs, delivery and shipping services, and other items. Spanberger also <a href=\"https:\/\/virginiamercury.com\/2026\/01\/22\/spanberger-democratic-lawmakers-are-pressing-for-virginia-to-rejoin-rggi-heres-how-it-would-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> plans to return Virginia to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative from which Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin withdrew the state during his tenure. The <a href=\"https:\/\/alec.org\/article\/virginia-and-the-regional-greenhouse-gas-initiative\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative<\/a> raises Virginians\u2019 electricity costs, as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/02\/25\/spanbergers-affordability-pitch-collapses-under-her-own-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admitted<\/a> by the Virginia Energy Efficiency Council.<\/p>\n<p>The affordability shtick was nothing more than a campaign myth meant to deceive voters into voting for Spanberger. It\u2019s the same playbook Democrats are running now. Impeaching Trump, blocking judicial nominees, and performatively opposing Trump regardless of the policy are all the real goals of Democrats, as made clear by Democrats themselves as well as Bouie.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no surprise that Americans are frustrated with high gas prices. But electing Democrats \u2014 whether because they promise to make life affordable or to punish Republicans for inaction on other fronts \u2014 will not result in lower gas prices. It will, however, bring an end to deportations, an end to secure borders, an end to shrinking government, and an end to any other campaign promise the president is working on now.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. 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