Democrats want to keep America shut down indefinitely; President Trump and the GOP want people free and prosperous.

Democrats were slow to react to the virus but fell in love with government shutdowns because they see them as an opportunity to permanently expand statist control over people's lives and because they assumed destroying the US economy would hurt Trump politically. These establishment figures have ZERO respect for the intelligence of the American people, with Bill Maher brazenly saying he's rooting for a recession and Hillary Clinton openly repeating the line about the crisis being a great "opportunity".

But in CNN polling Trump's lead over Biden on handling the economy has increased from 4 points in April to 12(!) points a few days ago.

https://moviechat.org/bd0000082/Politics/5ebdb1dba53d75739f8eebdf/Trump-leads-Biden-by-7-points-in-battleground-states-in-CNN-poll-52-45-and-ties-his-highest-approval-rating

Democrats, who aren't smart enough to try anything but pawn grabbing, have predictably been trying to blame Trump for virus deaths and attacking him for nudging the country toward opening up (in a safe, phased in way). Democrat states are typically maintaining lock downs while conservative states, less locked down to begin with, are the ones opening up.

Now people generally view Democrats as the party of perpetual shutdown and Trump as wanting to open things up, in part because that's how Democrats have framed it.

The truth is Trump responded to the virus faster than other people, imposing travel bans and encouraging shut down guidelines that always had to be temporary to avoid worse consequences. They gave us a chance to build a pandemic testing/treatment/management infrastructure basically from scratch, while conditioning people on mitigation behavior. Now it's time to open up and mitigate while living your lives.

Meanwhile Democrats are receiving increasing backlash over their strident, often arbitrary and excessive shut down orders, they've arrogantly abused citizens, and they've been doubling down on their rhetoric attacking Trump and states like Florida and Georgia that are in much better shape than Democrat states like New York. Protests will only continue, and more judges will smack down dictatorial abuses like this one:

https://townhall.com/columnists/mdkittle/2020/05/14/wisconsin-supreme-court-strikes-down-evers-lockdown-n2568800

The momentum is inexorably in favor of opening back up. While Democrats are relying on shallow establishment thinking and poorly constructed, out of date polls designed to tell them what they want to hear, President Trump is, again, more in tune with the real populist Zeitgeist and the essential, freedom loving American spirit.

Gloom, doom, endless poverty, and boasting about "unemployment on steroids", versus optimism, liberty, and a rapid economic recovery.

The stage is set.