During Thursday’s The Story, FNC host Martha MacCallum reported that “fears of a recession seem to be running high and some in the media seem almost giddy that an economic downturn would hinder President Trump’s chances in 2020.” After playing a “sampling” of media figures weighing in on the effect of a recession on President Trump’s re-election bid, MacCallum slammed the “unpatriotic” and “inhumane” media for rooting for a recession in the hopes that an economic downturn will cause him to lose re-election.

MacCallum told The Hoover Institution's Victor Davis Hanson that “I was listening to a lot of different news networks this morning, as I often do...getting a read on what everybody’s saying about what’s going on and, you know, I couldn’t help but feel that there was a bit of sort of enthusiasm for the possibility that maybe the economy might tank.”

According to MacCallum, “I think that that’s, you know, just sort of a generally...unpatriotic, I think, and it’s also sort of...inhumane to hope that people will suffer a bad economy so that you can get rid of a President that you don’t like.”

Hanson agreed with MacCallum’s analysis that “very wealthy people who were pretty comfortable to say that they want a radical downturn in the economic lives of millions is pretty callous and hypocritical.” He added that the fear of a recession fit into the “periodic hysterics” the liberalmedia obsess over, including the “25th Amendment, Emoluments Clause, Logan Act, Robert Mueller, (and) obstruction-collusion.” Hanson noted that the aforementioned examples of left-wing hysteria occupy “each news cycle of about two or three weeks.”

Hanson also pointed out that the media and the Democrats have basically practiced bias by omission when it comes to the economy when they felt “it was doing pretty well.” According to Hanson, “they didn’t want to talk about it” until they got “one little barometer of a yield curve” and now all of a sudden, “they want to talk about the economy until the next cycle drama and the next cycle.”

While the talk of a recession has resurfaced in the wake of the Dow’s 800-point tumble on Wednesday, the left and their media allies hoping for a recession is hardly a new concept. Real Time host Bill Maher explained last year that“one way you get rid of Trump is to crash the economy” and pleaded: “Please, bring on the recession. Sorry if that hurts people but it’s either root for a recession or you lose your democracy.”

As MacCallum pointed out, the media hype about a potential recession was particularly strong on Thursday, but as per MRC Business’s Joseph Vazquez, the liberal media hyped the possibility of an impending recession in June and July. When there are members of the liberal media all but lobbying for a recesion, it serves as another example of just how advanced their Trump Derangement Syndrome cases have advanced.

A transcript of the relevant portion of Thursday’s The Story is below. Click “expand” to read more.