"... There is one exception to the general rule that presidents don’t have much control over gas prices: Donald Trump. He can’t bring them down, but he certainly sent them up. [snip]
"There aren’t going to be too many voters who call themselves MAGA and will vote for Democrats because Trump made gas prices go up. But Democrats don’t need them to. It’s enough if the persuadable voters who believed Trump when he told them that he’d bring down the price of everything — including gas — are mad that he broke his promise and decide to send him and his party a message.
"In fact, if the Iran war drags on and gas prices stay high, this could wind up being as decisive a campaign issue as Trump’s misbegotten tariffs, his parade of idiotic construction projects, his rampaging incompetence, or his boundless corruption.
"Of all the ways a
president could tank his political standing and sabotage his party’s
chances of success in an upcoming election, few are as straightforward
as directly causing an increase in the price of gasoline at the pump.
Yet Trump has managed it. He truly is a president like no other." -- Paul Waldman, "Public Notice" Substack, on "Why Trump deserves all the blame for high gas prices." Waldman notes that many experts believe if the Malignant Fascist's bungled war with Iran doesn't end soon (and what would Iran's incentive be for that to happen?) gas prices could remain high for a prolonged period. Elect clowns ...
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