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because every time a republican president/majority government holds office they manage to cause drastic devastation to the economy due to their inept policies and decisions, but the noticeable effects are usually delayed by a couple of years and only become largely apparent after the end of their term. this means that the democratic president who is elected by the public to clean up the mess of his predecessor is wrongfully blamed because the idiotic voters in our nation generally have the attention span & memory of a field mouse and will only begin to care when they notice their quality of life being negatively impacted, so a majority will blame the sitting president regardless of if it even has anything to do with them.

this is typically why we see the drastic red to blue shifts every 8 years so. republicans cause the big mess and democrats clean up, but not quick enough for the voter base so they vote in another republican and the cycle continues.