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charging exorbitant amounts for bottled water after hurricanes, or how such a statute would prevent economy-wide inflation.

This back-filling and explaining away wouldn’t be necessary if Harris hadn’t spoken in such sweeping terms about a new federal power to control prices. And she didn’t do it spontaneously, but reading from a script prepared by advisers who presumably gave it some thought. What we are now being told was a way to convince people how much Harris cares about fighting inflation really shows how little she cares about what she says and what she proposes.

Her allies are making what’s ultimately a damning defense — don’t mind her, she’s just trying to say things that sound good.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review.

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