They're just trying to take away any semblance of success for Trump before the election. All Americans want 2020 to be over with, and they want us to associate the worst year in many to Trump.
2020 has been a bad year for sure. But I think a lot of people on the west coast grossly overestimate how much the rest of the country is invested in what goes on there. The same with NYC, Chicago, Milwaukee,...wherever. Everybody has the same federal government in America. But to a very large chunk of mainstream America those places might as well be a foreign country.
Basically, they're all "somewhere else".
