Conservatives Debate Burritos

August 6, 2026 Hunter Wallace 2026 Midterms, Capitalism, Conservatism, Economy, Inflation, Populists 8

June 15, 2015.

It was the day before Donald Trump came down the escalator at Trump Tower and announced he was running for president. It is inarguable that prices were lower for virtually everything in America. The average national price of gasoline was $2.89 a gallon. Obama was negotiating the Iran nuclear deal. The national debt was approximately $18.5 trillion. It is currently racing toward $40 trillion.

Conservative pundits and politicians spent the whole day yesterday raging online against Millennials and Zoomers complaining about the price of burritos. The price of a Chipotle burrito bowl has doubled in the Golden Age from what it was when Obama was president. Portion sizes have shrunk. You get less food for more money at Chipotle in 2026. Fitness influencers complain about it all the time.

The average White family does it all – cooks at home, grills food, eats out at restaurants, eats fast food – and has experienced prices going up across the board. People who shop at Sam’s Club and Costco have seen prices go up. Most people buy the same things at the grocery store every week and aren’t imagining that prices are soaring. Sure, it is less expensive to eat at home than to eat out at restaurants, but that has always been true. It is more expensive to feed your family now period in the Golden Age. Whether you are grilling a steak at home or eating one at a restaurant, it still costs you are far more now.

Look how far we have come since the 2024 election. Conservatives blame Uber Eats and DoorDash for $20 burritos. They are sharing tips on eating Ramen noodles and stretching ground beef with refried beans. The same people who used to bash progressives with “you will eat the bugs” memes are basically pulling out granddaddy’s old cornpone and fatback recipes from the Great Depression.

Scott Greer assures us in Whitepill that conservatives have changed. I need to read the book. I’m not seeing it. If anything is true, we seem to be reverting to the conservatism that I remember.

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  1. My wife and I(Gen X with 3 teen sons) were just discussing the other day how we were able to live through a relative “Golden Age” of affordability vs income. It’s shocking how bad Gen Z has got it as far as what they are have to spend as far as education, housing, food, insurance, etc with wages that haven’t changed that much since the 90s. The Republican Party isn’t resonating with people under 30 as the Rs just crank out the same old Boomer “Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps/Eat a Dirt Sandwich” BS like out of Eyepatch McCain. Of course the Democrats really aren’t addressing it either as they are getting insanely rich off of the current system.

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  2. “They are sharing tips on eating Ramen noodles”

    …and become diabetic from all that highly refined flour.
    ( Dialysis ain’t no fun or going blind.)

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  3. Talking to old neighbor lady, she fed her kids, in early 1960s on hamburger, 4 pounds for a dollar (0.25$/lb.), now 7$.

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  4. “You get less food for more money at Chipotle in 2026.”

    The wholesalers to all these fast food outlets are being bought up by private equity firms. Just wait until their control is total .

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  5. What’s happening is well beyond the ability of Donald Trump (or anyone else) to control. For decades running the Epstein Empire was able to shove off much of the inflationary result of Keynesian “economics” (fictional-reserve usury-rackets plus uncontrolled spending) onto other parts of the world. That’s starting to crumble so all of a sudden the idiocracy in the homeland is starting to see the effects locally. How many decades have all sorts of decent folks warned about all this crap?? I’ve lost count. Sinners can repent, but stupid is forever.

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  6. These are systemic issues, not liberal-conservative issues.
    It’s the same in Canada, Britain, Australia, the EU and all over the world.
    The cost of living rises far faster than wages, if wages rise at all.
    It’s because of our fiat, corporatist, oligarchic, imperialist worldwide system.
    All this liberal-conservative BS is rearranging furniture on a sinking ship.

    One day civilization as we’ve known it for the last two or three centuries will likely collapse, but no one knows when, it could go on for decades more, and it’ll be up to those generations living then to pick up the pieces, if there are any pieces worth salvaging that is.
    The hypercompetitive elite know all this, but they don’t care, they can’t help themselves, it’s in their nature to run Ponzi schemes.
    Civilization itself has become one big Ponzi scheme, it kind of always was, but especially now.

    In the meantime, we will continue playing these games, liberal-conservative, republican-democrat, Ukraine, Palestine, Iran and Taiwan, while the elite prepare for the coming economic, societal and ecological collapse by building underground cities, rockets to mars and whatever else they’re planning we know or don’t know about.

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  7. But this is what you wanted. Cheap prices were predicated upon the American global dominance backed by its military. You were given a choice: Support American global power and reinforce it with a military buildup in the face of growing massive threats or retreat to neo isolationism and watch food prices and quality of life explode.

    The cheap prices of the earlier eraneas subsidized by American power. You hated American power and wanted to grill. You can still grill it just will be extremely expensive. Once you and the Sand N@gger Jihadis cement the new weak America by forcing the US from the Middle East thereby allowing the Iranians to annex the Hormuz, watch the Petrodollar start a freedall. You won’t even be able to buy a loaf of bread for your family. You were warned. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.

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