This is what's really frustrating about being a progressive in the US.

In 2024, the supposed progressives insisted they had to run as conservatives or they wouldn't have a chance to win. The Republicans, though they were lying, ran on affordability and won a landslide, and they've since used their majorities at every level of government to make life more expensive.

And all the Dems are doing about it is sternly-worded letters, while doing their best to kill the candidacy of any Democrat who is actually committed to affordability, whether smearing them as an Islamic extremist, a Communist, leveling a weaponized (and evidence-free) SA allegation, or bringing up a tweet from 2012 or something.

I hate our ruling parties.