Blaming Conservatives for inflation is gaslighting projection
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
Apparently, those darn Conservatives are to blame for inflation and high gasoline prices.
Alinsky would be proud of this gaslighting projection …
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“Former Obama administration Treasury Secretary Larry Summers predicted the United States will enter an economic recession and suggested the possibility of yet higher gas prices than the country is currently seeing.
“I think the optimists were wrong a year ago in saying we have no inflation and I think they are wrong now if anyone is highly confident that we are going to avoid recession,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, adding that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s predictions are “too optimistic.”
… Finally, Summers has found a new culprit behind America’s inflation crisis: Republicans who downplay the severity of the January 2021 US Capitol riot.
“I think the banana Republicans who are saying that what happened on January 6 was nothing or OK are undermining the basic credibility of our country’s institutions,” Summers said on Sunday in a CNN interview.
“And that, in turn, feeds through for inflation.
● Because if you can’t trust the country’s government, why should you trust its money?” …