Over the last week, Democrats throughout the country have been essentially praying for the stock market to crash and the economy to tank. Once again, Democrats did their best to scare people into thinking they were going to lose their life savings and experience financial ruin due to President Donald Trump’s policies.

They predicted doom and gloom, economic fire and brimstone, locusts, and whatever other financial plague they tried to summon. These baseless forecasts by Democrats are nothing new. Consider some of their claims over the last five years.