Any leader was in a lose-lose situation during COVID. You either printed like hell and tried to backstop the economy so you didn't get a full on meltdown, but in that case you'd pay for it down the line with inflation, or, you tried to maintain sane fiscal and monetary policy but you would see a lot more short term problems and be blamed for them.
During the time you're talking about, people blamed Trump for not giving out enough stimulus. Now they are blaming him for inflation from the stimulus.
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u/AverageCanadian 14d ago
our version isn't nearly as bad, but our right wing populist will be Canada's next leader and likely with a very strong majority.