For a few days last week, and for the first time this year, the Democratic Party inched ahead of the Republican Party in the RealClearPolitics Generic Congressional Vote average by 0.2%.

Recent Democratic rhetoric and the longer history of Congress and midterm elections remind us that parties on their way to losing congressional majorities often talk the following way about their legislative agendas:

Government spending is a major cause of inflation. And inflation is a tax on the poor. This Congress has spent massive amounts of taxpayer dollars in the past two years, leading to historic highs in inflation not seen since the 1970s.