Opinion by Paul Waldman: We’re getting this election entirely backward
The impotence of members of Congress on those “kitchen table issues” is something we rarely talk about, in part because doing so honestly would make voters look more than a little foolish.
What no one will say is this: If you think this election will determine whether inflation goes down next year, you have no idea how the world works. What’s going to determine whether inflation comes down? The actions of the Federal Reserve, and the strength of supply chains, and whether the global economy plunges into recession. If a candidate says, “Inflation is bad, so vote for me!” it should be regarded an implicit acknowledgment that they don’t have any actual ideas toAnd to be clear, this overpromisingis a very good law that will do many worthwhile things, but it’s not going to bring down inflation.
Or take crime. Republicans would have you believe that the spike in certain kinds of crime that accompanied the pandemic in 2020 was the result of rampaging liberalism. After all, some activists proposed defunding the police and a few progressive prosecutors were elected. The trouble is that the increase in crime happened everywhere, in places run by Republicans as well as by Democrats. There was even aAll of which is to say that crime is complex and fed by national forces. It’s not that policy doesn’t matter over the long term, or that there aren’t things local officials in particular can do to make a difference.
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