As inflation rages on, we explore just why Democrats have embraced the precise positions that threw gasoline on the fire in the first place.

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When inflation continues to rage out of control, the Biden administration continues to say that

everything is going to be hunky dory.

By most economist estimates, it's going to be well into next year before inflation really

starts to hit the rates that Americans are used to, namely that 2% that the Federal Reserve

aims for.

As we know, the Biden administration has blamed everybody except themselves for all of this. But here is the thing. The inflation is part of the theory

the Democrats embraced. They embraced all of the fiscal and economic prerequisites for inflation.

The definition of inflation is too many dollars following too few goods. When you jack up

government spending, when you recommend that the Federal Reserve

pursue easy monetary policy, the predictable result of this is that you end up with inflation.

Unless we believe that this is some sort of like random thing that just happened to Democrats,

no, it isn't. This has been embedded in their most cherished ideals for a very long time.

One of the weird things about Joe Biden's presidency

is that he was nominated based on the fact that he was not Bernie Sanders and that he was not

Elizabeth Warren. And then once he became president, he decided to pursue exactly the same

policies that Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren would have pursued. And so to understand what's

happening right now, you sort of have to understand what Bernie and Elizabeth Warren were saying

way back in the day, meaning like 2019, 2020. So I want to take it in the time machine back to June 12th, 2019, when Bernie Sanders gave a big speech about democratic socialism, which sounds a lot like Billed back better. If you listen to what he actually says the government ought to do, it sounds exactly like Bill back better. So here is Bernie Sanders, circa June 2019. This is a major policy speech. The media aided up. It sounds exactly like Bill the back better. So here is Bernie Sanders,

circa June 2019. This is a major policy speech. The media aided up. It was covered with Sterling recommendations by Fox in the New York Times. Here was Bernie announcing what

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