Whoever it was who dreamed up those little stickers of Joe Biden pointing to the price display and proclaiming “I did that!” that have appeared on gas pumps all over the country is maybe the greatest folk propagandist of our time. Banksy has nothing on that guy.

Democrats, Joe Biden above all, are whining that it is unfair that they are probably going to get wiped out in November because of inflation. Expect that whining to get worse as Election Day approaches. No, inflation isn’t 100 percent the fault of the Biden administration and its congressional enablers, but they have made it worse — and, if they had been lucky and come into power right before an economic renaissance, they wouldn’t have worried about whether it was fair to take credit for it.

There will be other issues that matter in the midterm elections. But the smart Republicans (I am told these still exist) are going to mention gas prices in every single speech — whether it is about the brutalization of Ukraine or runaway crime or anything else. “A manned mission to Mars? Are you crazy? Can you imagine what the rocket fuel would cost at these prices?” The rising price of gasoline isn’t an electoral magic bullet, but it is about as close as you can get to one.