The disastrous inflation numbers released on Thursday have even penetrated the liberal cocoon of MSNBC. One MSNBC host late late last year told viewers “the dirty little secret” of inflation is that Americans can afford it just fine. But now the network is worried about a looming nightmare for Democrats in the 2022 midterms.

CNBC economics reporter Steve Liesman did not try and sugarcoat the news that inflation soared 7.5 percent in January, telling host Chris Jansing: “I think you should take this exactly as it appears, which is it’s a bad number. Inflation is high…. So I’m afraid this number is bad and could get worse before at least the forecasts are it gets better towards the end of the year.”

Jansing, however, eased in to the terrible ramifications for the Democrats: “There’s obviously a political question, Kristen, whether it will get better in time for the November elections. But having said that, the White House finally got some good news. They had a fantastic January jobs report. The President has been touting the best jobs growth in 40 years. What are they saying now?”