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It is Eric Erickson here across America.

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We got to talk about the economy.

There is a story out of Bloomberg.

Headline, inflation is so bad, Democrats want Biden to do more for midterms.

As Ronald Reagan might have put it, here we go again.

42 years after inflation helped sweep the former California governor into the White House and return the Senate to GOP control.

Surging prices threaten once again to upend a Democratic administration.

President Joe Biden and his fellow Democrats in Congress are desperate to avoid the fate

of President Jimmy Carter ousted after one term.

But Biden so far has had little success in either figuring out how to douse inflation

that's running at a four-decade high or even convincing voters that it wasn't his $1,400

stimulus check that acted as kindling.

Inside the administration, there's a sense of frustration, doom,

and some say magical thinking about inflation.

But no clear path on the best way for the White House to grapple with an economic phenomenon

that's been more severe and lasted longer than officials expected, unfortunately, for Biden and Democrats.

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