Democrats can build a favorable platform as GOP stuggling with tariffs, prices | Letters
The August recess has started for the House, and your representatives are returning to Wisconsin to either hold town halls for their constituents or dodge them for the next month (“House is on break; will Senate follow?” July 25).
Both party’s poll numbers are in the tank, although Democrats seem to be fairing worse. This is their opportunity to take a stand and spell out what they’re going to stand for. Their failure under former President Joe Biden was they went along with his mantra that the economy was getting better despite rising prices demonstrating the opposite.
If Democrats are smart, they’ll avoid harping on the Epstein controversy since it’s only at the forefront of the political diehards on both sides, not the average voter. Tariffs and their increase on prices of goods — that were already rising to begin with — should be their number one concern. People are concerned about rising prices, and it’s finally dawning on a lot of them that the tariffs are increasing prices by anywhere from 5 to 20%.
Add to that the mismanagement of the CDC, masked thugs pulling immigrants off the street and throwing them into detention camps like something out of the dark ages, a Justice Department that seems to only prosecutes who they're told to — regardless of who it is or if they're actually guilty — and the Democrats have more than enough to build a favorable platform.
Paul Mickey, Madison
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