To an instinctive leftist like Brooks, the individual must always be sacrificed for the general good. In the alternative case of benign inflation that he postulates, he presumes that wages will keep up with inflation, a fantasy, but still he forgets that folks on fixed income will surely be left behind.
Ironic isn’t it?
By that I point out Sleepy Joe ran on the tried and true Democrat talking point that Republicans are only concerned with benefiting the ultra rich, fat Wall Street types if you will.
Then when they are in power they pander to the very ones they accused the right of pandering to, but there is a difference. They ignore and tax the middle class and upper lower class. They also pander to the very poor, their voting base.
To strategy to be rinsed and reissued the next POTUS election.