If a Democratic president and Democratic vice-president were both oil millionaires, and had started a war in an oil-producing country that created enough uncertainty to raise the price of oil to new records, and then made noise about starting a
nuclear war in another oil-producing country, and that had sent the price of crude oil above $75 per barrel one Friday for the first time in history…
…then right now, at 1:05 AM EDT on the immediately following Saturday morning, we would be watching the impeachment hearings on C-SPAN, if not the actual Senate trial. Irate blond SUV-owning angry women would be shouting in picture-in-picture on every cable news channel about how the administration had screwed over American families and children to enrich POTUS, VPOTUS, and all their friends and contributors. Talk radio would be organizing riots at shopping malls. It would never, never end.
Just so we're clear on how seriously they'd take the situation if it were very slightly different.