REPUBLICANS POUNCE! WashPost Cries GOP ‘Primed to Pounce on Inflation’ in 2022

The Washington Post tried to whip out the generic “Republicans have pounced” cliché in order to spin some of the attention on skyrocketing prices away from President Joe Biden.

The liberal newspaper released a revealing story headlined, “Inflation emerging as top economic challenge in 2022.” Strong consumer demand in addition to ongoing supply chain problems “threaten to prolong sharply rising prices well into 2022, potentially making inflation the premier economic challenge of the new year.” The Post conceded that inflation “defied many economists’ expectations in 2021 by rising at the fastest pace in nearly 40 years,” and that “[e]verything from rent to the price of used cars to groceries” had spiked. 

Then The Post tried to make the Biden economy look like a victim of GOP political exploitation: “[T]The White House will examine a midterms election in which Republicans are represented.Inflation is on the horizon.” [Emphasis added.] 

You can now say The Post Economists and companies have made a 180-degree turn and expect inflation to persist into next year. According to The Post

[Soaring inflation] caused pain for consumers — eating into sizable wage gains. This caused problems for both the Federal Reserve (which had anticipated much lower inflation) and for the White House (which faced concern even from Democrats over whether increased federal spending plans would push inflation higher.

Joe Brusuelas is the RSM Chief Economist. The Post that “Regardless of how you look at it, inflation is going to be with us for a good period of time.” The Post even undercut reporting by The Associated Press, which tried to insert a weak silver lining into the awful November inflation numbers in a Dec.12 story headlined: “Inflation is painfully high, but some relief may be coming.” In The Post’s latest estimation, “The beginning of the year is unlikely to bring much relief.” It continued: “After a punishing year of food price increases for consumers, 2022 is unlikely to look much better.”

In the face of so much economic bad news, it makes sense. The Post Biden would be portrayed as a victim, and the GOP attacked. The newspaper has been teeter-tottering between red pill and blue pill moments on Biden’s economy throughout the entire year. The April issue was The Post tried to prop up Biden’s atrocious economic agenda in a piece headlined, “A majority of Americans support ‘Bidenomics.’ The pandemic changed minds dramatically.” 

The June issue of The Post attempted to downplay rising inflation in a “FAQ” piece by calling it a “yellow traffic light situation. People are on alert, but there’s no panic or slamming of brakes.” The newspaper would later concede in a piece in October that “uncomfortable inflation” was “changing the economy.” But that was before it released another story later in November headlined, “The Biden economy is doing pretty well by the measures Trump used to evaluate his own.”

Now, the angle has once again shifted to “Republicans Pounce!” So much for neutrality.

Conservatives under attack Contact The Washington Post at (202) 334-6000 and demand it stop trying to make the “Bidenflation” look like a GOP political target.