To some within the occasion, this feels all too just like the final time they held the White Home.

In 2006, anger at President George W. Bush and unease with the Iraq battle propelled Democrats to reclaim Congress; two years later they captured the presidency due to the identical anti-incumbent themes and an sudden disaster that accelerated their benefit, the financial collapse of 2008. The two elections have been successfully a single steady rejection of Republican rule, as some within the G.O.P. concern 2018 and 2020 might turn into in a worst-case situation.

Then there’s the president’s conduct.

In simply the final week, he has undercut the efforts of his marketing campaign and his allies to assault Mr. Biden on China; all of a sudden proposed a halt on immigration; and stated governors shouldn’t transfer too quickly to reopen their economies — every week after calling on protesters to “liberate” their states. And that was all earlier than his digression into the potential therapeutic powers of disinfectants.