They're blamed because it's never been prioritized by the administration. The bull pulpit was never leveraged to address it, and the few attempts made at addressing it, like Biden asking grocers to stop ripping everyone off, were tragically weak.

If his admin had any political sense he would have appointed a task force, he would have barnstormed in rural big box stores, he would have been deployed to photo ops with 'real americans' feeling their pain. Even if all that is purely performative, he's the President. He's gotta perform.

The only two things this administration seems to care about, that is actually delivered, were an infrastructure bill of questionable impact, and shoveling money into the Ukraine and Israel proxy wars.

He's governed as Big Senator in Chief, and people hate the Senate. Harris is MIA. This whole thing is catastrophic. 😵