What happens politically if gas prices go through the roof?

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Points at MAGA response to COVID

They don’t even care about their own lives; I wouldn’t assume that they care about their wallets all that much if they can blame “those people” and consider it the price for hurting everyone else.

What’s the line? Something like “America is full of millions of people who will be willingly reduced to living under a bridge eating a squirrel off a stick, if it means the people they hate don’t have a squirrel or a stick.”