Democrats say they want to speak for minorities and blue-collar workers, but their politics is driven by college-educated white elites.

AOC reacts to being trolled by blowing up at the Capitol Police and the media worry about Republicans pouncing on the economy.

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The death appeared to be accidental. A spokeswoman for the city's chief medical examiner's office said that it would investigate the death. Throughout their marriage, according to the Times, Trump commanded almost as much media attention as her husband, as they helped define the 1980s as an era of gaudy excess among the elite and image Trump used to fuel his turn as an outsized TV personality before his 2016 run for the White

House. It was Ms. Trump who rechristened her husband, The Donald, a moniker that became a fixture

in the New York tabloid press. Ms. Trump was widely popular with the press. Ivana Trump

obviously brought up a pretty successful

family. Her death provided an opportunity for all the trolls online to say horrible things,

but that's sort of the usual way that things go now online. Bottom line is that we wish,

best wishes to the Trump family after the tragic death of Ivana. And meanwhile, Democrats are in serious political trouble. According to The New York Times, Democrats are facing deepening peril as Republican seize on inflation fears. So always the story for the left-leaning media is that when things are going poorly for Democrats, the story isn't that things are going poorly for Democrats. It's that Republicans are seizing. They're pouncing. They're jumping.

It's always the, the Republican response is always the story. It's never a Democratic failure. That is the story, according to the New York Times, triple-digit gasoline bills, bulging hamburger prices, a 4th of July holiday that broke the bank. Prices are rising at the fastest rate in four decades, a painful development that has given Republicans a powerful talking point just months ahead of the midterm elections.

With control of Congress very much in play,

Republicans are investing heavily in a blitz of campaign advertisements that portray a dark sense of economic disarray as they seek to make inflation, a political albatross for President Biden and Democrats. By the way, you got to love the language of the left-wing media. It's always the same. When Republicans point out that things are going badly, it's a dark, divisive message. You remember that they said this about Donald Trump's speech at the RNC in 2016. It was dark. It was divisive. It was a dark vision. However, when Democrats routinely say that the world will end because of the overthrow of Roe v. Wade, or that we are going to be burned up by the sun because of global warming,

because of Joe Manchin. That's not dark. That's just realistic about the prospects for humanity.

The New York Times says,

according to Cancer's campaign media analysis group candidates running in House, Senate,

and Governor races around the country have spent $22 million airing about 130,000 local and

national TV ads mentioning inflation from early April

through the beginning of July, which of course makes perfect sense since the vast plurality

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