It's one burrito, Michael. What could it cost? We are deep in the summer news doldrums, as evidenced by the fact that the dominant story on Politics Twitter this week was a debate over how much burritos cost.
I'm not too interested in the specifics of the burrito controversy, but before we can get to what it all means, you need to know the basics. It started with a viral tweet from Andrew Kolvet, a spokesman for Turning Points USA, who claimed that a college student recently complained to him about paying $20 for a burrito. In the days since, seemingly every single faction and figure in the broader universe of right-of-center politics has some theory about why burritos are expensive or how to handle your household burrito budget. And Vice President J.D. Vance called political commentator Marc Thiessen fat, for some reason.
