Propaganda by Chart: An Old Trick in a New Wrapper This week, the Senate Majority PAC (a front for Democrat Senate campaigns) dropped a decades-spanning beef price chart like it was a smoking gun. Their claim? That Republicans — and by extension, Trump — are to blame for rising beef costs. “Republicans don’t care about the price of beef,” they proclaimed, hoping the chart would seal the deal. But here’s the catch: the actual data undercuts the narrative. Prices had already been surging before Trump took office and continued after. This was no damning indictment — it was a slow-burning trend that spans presidents, policies, and planetary conditions. Yet the chart was waved around like holy scripture, stripped of nuance,…
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