After four years of inflation, Democrats now have the answer?
Posted By RichC on December 20, 2025
Democrats are suddenly discovering “affordability” as their new talking point now that Republicans control the White House and Congress. It’s a remarkable pivot—after four years of presiding over the worst inflation in four decades, they’re lecturing 
Americans about the cost of living.
The record is unambiguous: consumer prices rose cumulatively by more than 21% during the Biden-Harris administration, compared to roughly 8% during Trump’s first term. That isn’t a temporary blip or a “global phenomenon” America alone suffered—it’s a permanent shift upward in the cost of essentials. Groceries, energy, housing, vehicles: everything families buy is meaningfully more expensive today than it was in January 2021, and those higher prices are now baked in as the new baseline—and much of it in 2025 still left over from the previous administrations’ policies.
This surge didn’t happen by accident. It followed trillions in new federal spending pushed through when Democrats held unified control of government, combined with restrictive energy policies and regulatory bottlenecks that constrained supply at exactly the moment demand was being supercharged. Inflation wasn’t “transitory” as they repeatedly claimed—it was persistent, painful and entirely foreseeable.
