[W]thout inflation and high gasoline prices ... Trump and his cabinet of brutally unqualified sycophants and the cowardly Republican Party would not have been punished so severely.
[T]he Democrats' advantage is overwhelming. But Trump has pursued a policy of increasingly concentrating power in his own hands and circumventing both Congress and the courts.
[W]thout inflation and high gasoline prices ... Trump and his cabinet of brutally unqualified sycophants and the cowardly Republican Party would not have been punished so severely.
Even Jake Sullivan, former United States president Joe Biden’s national security adviser, said “the Washington Consensus is a promise that was not kept[.]”