Democrats’ argument that Trump caused economic suffering doesn’t make sense

Published August 20, 2020 3:04am ET



Democrats finally got to a policy discussion on the third night of their convention, even though their pitch to small-business voters didn’t make a whole lot of sense.

Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio interviewed a couple whose business has struggled during the pandemic. “You are kind of forgotten, right?” Brown asked rhetorically. “The president always bragging about the stock market sort of leaves a lot of small manufacturing companies behind.”

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