When it comes to exploiting tragedies for political gain, Democrats regularly teach master classes. They do it with statements from ideologically-aligned politicians, social media posts, and legacy media reports. Be it a strong hurricane that developed in the future “Gulf of America,” a global pandemic, or devastating wildfires in California, Democrats regularly capitalize on these events to make it about their political agendas, and they have been doing so for quite some time.

“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” former Democratic congressman Rahm Emanuel once said. “And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”