Look at the Data, Doom-and-Gloomers — Food Costs Aren’t What You Think

Voters have a God-given right to complain. That’s why we have politics. 

It wouldn’t hurt, though, if we occasionally took a minute to place our problems in historical context.

Otherwise, we risk falling into a doom-and-gloom spiral that threatens to undo our grasp on reality. 

Take grocery prices.

Polls show that two-thirds of the American public consider groceries to be “unaffordable.”

The anxiety over prices is driving people to embrace socialist ideas like Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s $70 million city-owned supermarket chain.

And it’s the reason why many right-wing economic populists are pestering President Trump to stop fighting Iran so he can “focus” on lowering food prices.

Sorry, but they’re all wrong: We’re not living through an unprecedented food crisis.