OTOH the Democrats were busy impeaching the president - completely tying up the Senate - when President Trump first acted against Covid vectors coming from China. Biden, for one, criticized him for that.And they will blame the economic downturn on Trump and his allegedly not properly dealing with the virus and fallout from the virus.
OTOH Trump, anticipating that, threw out the bait that he was going to control the reopening of the economy - and the governors all took the bait. President Trump then set the hook, and now it is the governor of each state who controls the reopening - and thus the economic carnage going forward. By November Trump’s involvement will be de minimus on that issue. It will be state by state - and the Democrat governors have, in many cases, demonstrated an enthusiasm for throttling the economy indefinitely. Democrats will talk about Trump’s role in the drop in the economy, Republicans will talk about Republican governors’ success in reopening the economies of the states they control.It appears that the Democrats, having no record of doing anything but oppose Mr. Trump when he did take action, are ill positioned to criticize either the closing or the opening of the economy. The one coherent, possibly correct, objection to Mr. Trump’s action is that he didn’t follow the Swedish model (which the WHO is now touting). The Swedish government jawboned the public to take caution, but shut down nothing. That presumably cost the lives of some elderly - and possibly a few non-elderly - Swedes. OTOH if herd immunity has set in in Sweden, the Swedes are or soon will be better off than they would have been going all Gretchen Whitmer on themselves.
But the Democrats have no history of advocating that then, and cannot use it as a critique of Trump now.
I think that by now President Trump is somebody - and you can’t beat somebody with nobody. Time will show.
PT is going to pound Biden on his life long record of Globalism, and being a chi com stooge.