Last month, the House voted to raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour. As Meagan Day noted at the time, a lot of corporate Democrats probably felt “free to put on a show for voters” because they knew the bill wouldn’t pass the Republican-controlled Senate. Even so, it was an important show of strength for a Fight for Fifteen movement that’s been demanding the wage hike since 2012.

On the other hand, even if the increase had become law, $15 in 2019 isn’t quite what it was in 2012. And the House bill wasn’t even scheduled to fully go into effect until 2025. Speaking at a One Fair Wage event in Detroit, Rashida Tlaib said that, “when we started it, it should have been $15. Now it should be . . .  $20 an hour — $18 to $20 an hour at this point.”

Conservatives reacted to Tlaib’s suggestion as if she were demanding that every low-wage worker be given a unicorn. Fox News contributor Guy Benson responded, “Why not $20? Or $50? Go, Rashida, go!” Meghan McCardle chimed in with, “Do I hear $25?” Ben Shapiro quote-tweeted McCardle and upped the ante. “They should make it $1,000 an hour and cure income inequality inside of a month, obviously.”