By Earlier in the week, Kamala Harris declared that Donald Trump and his supporters are “fascists,” citing a two-year-old story from the former president’s former chief of staff in which Trump allegedly said he liked the German generals during World War II.
Now, however, it appears to be Harris supporters who are actually acting like brownshirts. Following Donald Trump’s wildly successful campaign event in which he worked the fryer at McDonald’s, liberals have begun to attack both the specific store and the company as a whole.
Trump manning the drive thru at a McDonald’s in Feasterville-Trevose, Pa pic.twitter.com/XCM2gIIWUs
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The Daily Caller reports that the owner of the McDonald’s in Pennsylvania has had to hire armed guards to protect his patrons.
The Bucks County McDonald received threatening phone calls and social media messages following Trump’s visit, Jim Worthington, the leader of Pennsylvania’s delegation at the Republican National Convention and one of the key organizers of the Trump McDonald’s visit, told the DCNF. As a precaution to protect his employees, the franchise’s owner Derek Giacomantonio has retained the private security force he’d hired in the lead up to the event, said Worthington, who was communicating on behalf of Giacomantonio.
Despite some threats, the vast majority of the community has reportedly been supportive, with Worthington telling the DCNF, “the community is really embracing it, and a lot of people have come in here since Sunday just to patronize the restaurant,” adding that, “a lot of people anticipated [a boycott] would happen, because that is typical for some Democratic supporters to do, but [the business] hasn’t been hurt.”
Worthington also stressed that Giacomantonio has kept the private security force primarily as a precaution to ensure his employees safety, rather than because of a pressing fear of violence.
“There was chatter…There’s been messaging and phone calling and social media where people have made threats and said they are going to do this or that, but nobody has come into the restaurant to make a ruckus,” he told the DCNF. “It’s been nothing that Derek [Giacomantonio] hadn’t anticipated, and nothing that has made him think anything would actually be carried out.”
It wasn’t just Democratic voters who decided to attack McDonald’s, however. Elected officials got in on the act, too. After Trump’s successful campaign event, a furious group of Democrats, led by Elizabeth Warren, used their power in the Senate to badger the company about inflation.
The National Review reported that Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bob Casey, and Ron Wyden demanded McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski explain inflation to them in a letter.
“‘While McDonald’s is not the only fast food restaurant that has increased prices significantly in recent years, its dominant market position as the largest fast food chain in the United States has an outsize impact on American consumers. While working families are trying to make ends meet, McDonald’s and its corporate counterparts have continued to grow their profits,’ the letter reads.
The lawmakers are asking McDonald’s for information about how individual items are priced and how the company advises franchisees tasked with setting prices at specific locations. They are also questioning McDonald’s recent stock buybacks and the executive compensation structure for its top employees.
Warren is a longtime critic of big business and a proponent of the ‘greedflation‘ theory that large corporations are to blame for high inflation under the Biden administration, rather than other factors such as government spending and supply bottlenecks.
Likewise, Casey, a vulnerable incumbent running a close race against GOP challenger Dave McCormick, routinely blames excessive corporate profits for inflation and has made it a campaign issue. Many economists have dismissed the “greedflation” narrative, especially as inflation has subsided in particularly vulnerable sectors.”
Earlier in the year, Erlinger wrote that efforts have been made to keep price increases down for customers. As a result, he explained, many items have risen less than the inflation rate and are still competitive with other fast-food chains. Additionally, over 90 percent of U.S. franchisees offer meal deals priced at $4 or less.
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