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Our editorial board does not believe that the results of the presidential campaign that ended a week ago should surprise anyone – least of all frequent readers of this page.

I have noted with concern the failures of the Biden Administration to address inflation or even to communicate that they recognize the undue stress it has placed on American families.

“Americans are struggling and worried” I editorialized in July 2022. “And we need our leaders in Washington, DC to recognize these struggles and fears and address them head on.”

“For too long, hope has simply played too large a role in how inflationary pressures on middle-class and working-class families are addressed,” I wrote in March 2023.

“It pains us that after years of imploring the White House and other leaders to raise the bar on this critical issue, we continue to see such a casual attitude,” I noted less than a month ago.

Often, as we emphasized the urgency of reducing inflation, we recognized the important role that affordable domestic energy could play in bringing relief to Americans. I have advocated, to no avail, for the White House to wholeheartedly embrace energy production.

“Republicans are right to say that ‘the American people have suffered enough’ because of the administration’s reluctance to allow more domestic drilling,” I wrote in October 2022. “They are right to identify this approach as ‘destructive.’

As I noted again when Vice President-elect JD Vance visited Williamsport, I agreed with Vance. “criticisms of Democrats’ efforts—efforts that have thankfully had limited success—to abandon conventional energy sources and impose reliance on renewable energy before that level of confidence is even remotely practical.”

We voiced the concerns we hear shared by our neighbors, family, and friends that the reach and cost of our federal government is simply unsustainable—perhaps no initiative better illustrates that unsustainability than the Biden administration’s efforts to forgive student loans – an initiative that, as we said in April 2024, is fixed “Expensive Precedents in an Age of a $34 Trillion National Debt.”

This is by no means a comprehensive list of the opportunities we have taken to share our concerns about the White House’s neglect of these important issues.

However, on all of these concerns—and more—we found the White House, the Harris campaign, and many of their most public supporters to be at best insensitive and at worst condescending and contemptuous.

We don’t think anyone should be surprised that comfortable margins in key Electoral College states — and in the nation as a whole — have spoken proverbially in a way the administration couldn’t dismiss and must respond to — by turning the House White moves on to the 45th and soon to be 47th president, Donald Trump.