"Voters! We are thrilled to see that so many of you are leaning R this fall! And we hear it’s because of … the economy? Wild!
"To
our knowledge, we haven’t been saying anything about the economy or
offering any kind of exciting plan to fix it! As far as I can see, we’ve
just been calling Joe Biden a socialist, fear-mongering about the
existence of trans people and suggesting that people who want us to
denounce antisemitism are Like '1984,' But Worse!
"That’s why we appreciate your confidence so much! As you clearly have
realized, when one thing is going very poorly, you have options! Try to
fix it, or just make everything else worse, too! Vote Republican, and we
guarantee to do our level best to distract you from the economy by
impeaching everyone in government, putting Marjorie Taylor Greene
in charge of more things, and, in our spare moments, urging the Supreme
Court to eliminate any more rights or protections that might be lying
around!" -- satirist Alexandra Petri in the Washington Post, leading off her column expressing thanks from the Republican Party to voters who are focusing on the state of the economy. Under Republican rule, she concludes, "As you hurtle across state lines in an ambulance on the brink of death,
your rights decimated, your vote uncounted, your libraries shuttered — I
guarantee the last thing you’ll be thinking about is the economy!"
