Some Dems are probably rooting against the economy. There are some on both sides who always tend to do that; it's not relegated to one ideology to have that kind of blind ambition.
But their "hopes" are misplaced. This election is as likely to be a referendum on COVID as it is on economics. And Trump has shown what kind of crisis leader he is. You either like it, or you don't.
Trump will probably win, and I'm not reverse jinxing. He's just a master at manipulation. He's already laying the groundwork for a few strategies - both centered around the kind of continuity that people prefer in a time of war. The ol' "you can't switch horses now...we're so close!" This is what Trump is best at. He'll stoke fear of uncertainty like no other if there is any glimmer of hope for either a vaccine or economic recovery by November.
Grind is always right.
"In early April, Jason Furman, a top economist in the Obama administration and now a professor at Harvard, was speaking via Zoom to a large bipartisan group of top officials from both parties. The economy had just been shut down, unemployment was spiking and some policymakers were predicting an era worse than the Great Depression. The economic carnage seemed likely to doom President Donald Trump’s chances at reelection.
Furman, tapped to give the opening presentation, looked into his screen of poorly lit boxes of frightened wonks and made a startling claim.
“We are about to see the best economic data we’ve seen in the history of this country,” he said.
The former Cabinet secretaries and Federal Reserve chairs in the Zoom boxes were confused, though some of the Republicans may have been newly relieved and some of the Democrats suddenly concerned.
“Everyone looked puzzled and thought I had misspoken,” Furman said in an interview. Instead of forecasting a prolonged Depression-level economic catastrophe, Furman laid out a detailed case for why the months preceding the November election could offer Trump the chance to brag — truthfully — about the most explosive monthly employment numbers and gross domestic product growth ever.
Furman’s counterintuitive pitch has caused some Democrats, especially Obama alumni, around Washington to panic. “This is my big worry,” said a former Obama White House official who is still close to the former president. Asked about the level of concern among top party officials, he said, “It’s high — high, high, high, high.”
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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...mocrats-281470
I love how democrats continually route against america and our success. awful people. I would never have wished for economic collapse with obama as president. democrats are sick."