This narrative about the media and Democrats causing this is not true. A virus caused this. That's a political strategy in order to deflect blame in an election year. The markets were kept high for years by low fed rates, and massive government spending (among Bush, Obama, and Trump). Instead of preparing for the next crisis, which was bound to happen, we used the "credit card", as they say. You can say the stock market was artificially kept high in a sense. The stock market was due for a correction, and the virus accelerated that. This is not a partisan issue, and people need to stop framing it as such.