That’s been Brandon’s economic policy since day one. The worse the economy (and everything else) the more the federal government “needs” to create and exercise new powers. Health care, mass shootings, high inflation, supply chain shortages, spikes in crime, loss of faith and rationality in the justice system, indoctrinating the military to left wing values; it serves to destabilize the current form of government and society. In other words, it’s setting the stage for a revolution.
ETA: But Trump! (I.e. claim your opponent is guilty of what you are actually doing.)