Christina Greer: We Should Be More Worried About Extreme GOP Candidates and Our Democracy than About Inflation

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GREER: “I mean, I think it was said a lot of Republicans, especially in the base, are looking backwards. It’s imperative that these Senate candidates and gubernatorial candidates and Joe Biden really contextualize why it is that we have to look forward, what is at stake. It’s not just about inflation and economics and gas prices, it is about the soul of our democracy. I know, you know, my students get tired of hearing this, but every election is the most important election. But in this instance, it absolutely is. If we don’t get 2022 correct, we don’t get 2024 correct, because as Kevin McCarthy and Lindsey Graham have already said, if Republicans gain control of one or two parties — houses in Congress, you know, immediately impeachment proceedings start. Who are we impeaching and why? It doesn’t matter. They just said, 'We will start impeachment proceedings.' It will be lots of Hunter Biden, it will be lots of emails and laptops, it will be Hillary Clinton all over again, it will be Barack Hussein Obama. We’ve seen this time and time again, and so we’re seeing it even more. So it’s really important that if we want to actually move forward on policy, we need to make sure that some of these extremist candidates who have won their primaries are not elected in November of 2022, definitely not in November of 2024."