The Party of Consequences Denial: How Democrats Caused the Crises They Now Blame on Everyone Else
Democrats Are Crying Over The Unaffordabilty That They Caused And ILLEGALS. So Much For You.
There is a particular form of political gaslighting that has become the Democratic Party's signature move. Create a crisis through decades of failed policy. Blame the crisis on Republicans, on corporations, on "greed," on anyone but themselves. Then, when the public finally rebels against the unaffordability and chaos they have engineered, express bewilderment that voters are not rewarding them for their "compassion." The latest iteration of this performance is almost too predictable to be believed: Democrats are now crying about the unaffordability that they caused and the illegal immigration they encouraged, asking plaintively, "So much for you?"
The answer, from a conservative perspective, is simple and devastating: yes, so much for us. So much for the working families priced out of housing by your zoning policies. So much for the American workers whose wages were suppressed by your open borders. So much for the children trapped in failing schools protected by your teachers' unions. So much for the communities devastated by the fentanyl you allowed to flood across a border you refused to secure. You created this. You own it. And your tears are not an argument for more power; they are a confession of catastrophic failure.
The Affordability Crisis: A Democratic Masterpiece
Let us begin with housing, the most visible and painful manifestation of unaffordability in America. In cities and states controlled by Democrats for decades New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland the cost of shelter has become astronomical. The median home price in California now exceeds $800,000. In New York City, the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment hovers around $4,000 per month. Young people are giving up on homeownership entirely. Families are doubling up in cramped apartments. The American Dream of owning a home with a yard is slipping away for an entire generation.
And who is responsible? Democrats will tell you it is corporate landlords, or greedy developers, or Airbnb, or the weather. But the truth is that Democratic governance created this crisis through a simple, relentless formula: make it impossible to build.
For decades, Democratic-controlled cities have enacted some of the most restrictive zoning laws in the developed world. They have empowered neighborhood activists to block any new construction through endless environmental reviews and community board hearings. They have imposed rent control policies that discourage new development while accelerating the decay of existing housing stock. They have created permitting processes that take years and cost millions, ensuring that only the most expensive luxury projects can survive the gauntlet.
The result is exactly what any economist could have predicted: when you make it illegal to build enough housing, housing becomes unaffordable. The laws of supply and demand are not suspended by progressive good intentions. Yet Democrats continue to act surprised that their policies have produced precisely the outcomes they were designed to produce.
The Inflation Tax: Paid for by Progressive Spending
Then there is inflation, the cruelest tax of all because it falls hardest on those with the least. Since 2020, the cost of everything groceries, gasoline, utilities, insurance has soared. The Biden-Harris administration inherited an economy recovering from a once-in-a-century pandemic and proceeded to pour trillions of dollars of new spending into it, overheating an already strained system.
The American Rescue Plan. The so-called Inflation Reduction Act, which did nothing to reduce inflation and everything to increase spending. Student loan forgiveness schemes that added hundreds of billions to the national debt. Green energy subsidies that distorted markets and raised energy costs. Regulatory assaults on domestic energy production that sent gasoline prices to record highs.
Every one of these policies was championed by Democrats. Every one was opposed by Republicans who warned of exactly the consequences that followed. And now, when Americans go to the grocery store and wince at the price of eggs and milk, Democrats blame "corporate greed" and "supply chain issues" and "Putin's price hike." They never blame themselves. They never acknowledge that their own spending spree devalued the currency in every American's wallet.
The Border: Open Doors, Closed Minds
Perhaps no issue demonstrates Democratic hypocrisy more vividly than immigration. For four years, the Biden-Harris administration systematically dismantled every border security measure put in place by President Trump. They ended the Remain in Mexico policy. They stopped construction of the border wall. They instituted catch-and-release on a massive scale. They broadened the definition of asylum to include claims that would never survive a court challenge. They instructed ICE to focus enforcement on "priorities" that excluded most illegal border crossers.
The result was the largest wave of illegal immigration in American history. Millions of people crossed the border illegally. Communities across the country from small towns in Ohio to major cities like New York and Denver were overwhelmed by the influx. Shelters filled to capacity. Schools struggled with students who did not speak English. Hospitals provided uncompensated care. Local budgets were blown apart by the cost of services.
And what did Democrats do when their own cities and states began to feel the strain? They blamed Texas. They blamed Florida. They blamed anyone but themselves. Mayor Eric Adams of New York, who had spent years praising "sanctuary city" policies, suddenly began begging for federal help and complaining that the buses from Texas were overwhelming his capacity. Governor Gavin Newsom of California, who had turned his state into a de facto sanctuary for the entire country, remained largely silent as border crossings shattered records.
The cruelty of this approach is that it uses human beings as political props. Democrats encouraged people to make a dangerous journey across thousands of miles, often at great personal cost, based on the implicit promise that they would be welcomed and supported. Then, when the numbers became politically inconvenient, they turned around and blamed the very people who had warned them this would happen.
The Double Standard: Compassion for the Foreign, Contempt for the Citizen
Underlying all of these policy failures is a profound moral inversion that has come to define the modern Democratic Party. The party that once claimed to speak for the working class now speaks almost exclusively for the donor class, the academic class, and the activist class. Its "compassion" is reserved for those who are far away the migrant crossing the border, the victim of climate change in Bangladesh, the oppressed minority in some distant land. For the American citizen struggling to afford rent, or the American worker displaced by immigration, or the American child trapped in a failing school, Democrats have nothing but lectures about privilege and demands for more patience.
This is the "so much for you" moment that the original post captures so perfectly. After decades of Democratic governance that has made life less affordable, less safe, and less secure for ordinary Americans, Democrats now express hurt and confusion that those same Americans are not more grateful. They cannot understand why the working-class voters who once formed the core of their coalition have drifted away to a Republican Party that at least pretends to notice their existence.
The answer is that working-class Americans are not stupid. They can see that Democratic policies have made their lives harder. They can see that Democratic priorities do not include them. They can see that the party's "compassion" is a rhetorical performance, not a governing philosophy. And they have decided, rationally and correctly, that they would rather vote for a party with flaws that at least acknowledges their existence than for a party that treats them as an obstacle to its progressive ambitions.
The Conservative Alternative: A Vision of Abundance
Conservatives offer a different vision, one rooted not in scarcity and redistribution but in abundance and opportunity. On housing, we advocate for deregulation, property rights, and the removal of barriers to construction. On inflation, we advocate for fiscal discipline, sound money, and an end to the spending sprees that devalue the currency. On the border, we advocate for enforcement, sovereignty, and an immigration system that serves American interests rather than globalist fantasies.
These are not radical ideas. They are common sense. They are the policies that built the American middle class in the first place. And they stand in stark contrast to the Democratic agenda of control, dependency, and decline.
Conclusion: The Tears Are Not Convincing
So Democrats are crying now. They are crying about unaffordability they created. They are crying about a border they opened. They are crying about voters who have abandoned them. And they are asking, with genuine bewilderment, "So much for you?"
Yes. So much for you. So much for your promises of free stuff paid for by someone else. So much for your open borders and closed minds. So much for your contempt for the working class and your devotion to the donor class. So much for your performative compassion and your actual cruelty. So much for you.
The American people have rendered their verdict. They have seen what Democratic governance delivers: unaffordability, insecurity, and chaos. They have chosen a different path. And no amount of crocodile tears will change that calculation.
The only question that remains is whether Democrats will learn anything from their defeat. Will they finally acknowledge that their policies have failed? Will they finally listen to the voters they have lost? Or will they continue to cry about the consequences of their own actions, blaming everyone but themselves for a future they have made unbearable?
The answer, based on decades of evidence, is that they will not learn. They will not change. They will continue to double down on the same failed policies, expecting different results. And they will continue to wonder, with genuine confusion, why the American people keep rejecting them.
So much for you, indeed.
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