‘We got rolled’: How the conservative grassroots lost the fight with Biden because it was focused on Trump

 https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/22/conservative-grassroots-biden-trump-00052983

In years past, it would have been a political Waterloo moment for Republicans: President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats racing frantically to finalize sweeping legislation to hike taxes on corporations and spend trillions on climate change and health care subsidies.

But instead of mounting a massive grassroots opposition to tank or tar the Inflation Reduction Act, conservatives and right-wing news outlets spent the past week with their gaze elsewhere: the FBI’s search of Donald Trump’s Palm Beach mansion.