Why do you think it's just a couple "Democrats" changing sides or caving when Republicans need them to?
They are playing good cop/bad cop but they are both cops.
Sure maybe 49% of Democrats might have the best intentions but along as Republicans stand strong with their 51% they control basically everything.
It's naive to think that the rich controls everything except for the Democratic party. They do a lot of work to make it look like they don't own the good cop.



For this one thing yeah the small fraction of inflation wouldn't probably be noticeable. But you cannot do it for everything or every fraction adds up to a bunch.