“Please pardon my cynical nature”
No need.
I have long thought that the reason the Republicans threw the last two elections (yes, gave it away) was for the reasons you allude to, namely, as long as a Dem is in power, the market will maintain its bullish stature.
If a Republican gets in, it’s good-bye Charlie. A market crash (maybe the dollar as well) that we’ll not recover from.
They figure that losing and living the high life is better than scoring a victory and struggling.
Hadn’t thought about in terms of elections.
That could absolutely what be has happened.
The puppetmasters don’t wait for election results before crashing the market — remember 2008? They tanked the market (and the ecomomy) hard starting in September/October of that year, while their media propagandists made sure Republicans got all the blame for the “bad economy” so as to ensure that the empty monkey suit running on the Dem ticket would get elected. In case that wasn’t a foregone conclusion to begin with, since the Republicans nominated an equally empty suit that year and in 2012.
They also talked down the economy big time in the run-up to the 2000 and 2004 elections and it almost worked. In the absence of a war going on, the economy is always the #1 issue among normal, working adult voters.