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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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Betting against America is a foolish proposition, as decades and centuries have proven.  Leftist political merchants, however, continue to peddle that gloom and doom.  The most stinging rebuke in recent years comes courtesy of America’s petroleum sector – perhaps the Left’s most detested bogeyman of all.  Recall the decades of endless lectures about how petroleum, which has done more than perhaps any other resource in human history to improve lives and advance civilization, was a vanishing resource that we must cede to the mercy of oft-hostile foreign powers and…
 
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