Even if this take wasn’t reductive and worthless, guess what, “fascism” is too abstract an issue to count on the majority of voters to go to the polls for. This is an unavoidable material reality. But you don’t want to work around it, you just want to spur a circle jerk among you and your hivemind followers about how you “get it” and others don’t and you all are the prescient and astute trapped in a world of intellectual lessers.
Fucking morons, I totally get why people go post left if their parents and social circles were all people who talked to each other like this. If you want to call someone stupid and myopic just say that shit, don’t pride yourself on avoiding negative politics then do this grating snark bullshit instead.
For a while there IIRC the “basket of goods” excluded food, housing, and transportation.
Fact check: President Biden has worked tirelessly to improve the cost of average American household’s monthly television purchase
I think that was just Paul Krugman taking an already cherry-picked CPI to the logical conclusion (not that he realized it, to be clear).