Democrats are too dumb to play back his words and remind people we're supposed to be in a golden age.
JFC, what more do you think the Democrats could do? There was nothing but "Orange Man will destroy this country" from them before the election if anyone would have fucking listened.
Forty-plus years of Fox News gaslighting, FUD, moral panics, and outright lies means that there is a large group of people who will consistently vote against their own interests in the name of "owning the libs". Constant drumbeat of "libruls bad" and thorough sanewashing of orange man and the GOP's policies made these people deaf to what the Democrats were saying. Maybe the pain they're feeling from getting screwed over can make them hear again.
He's been doing drastic shit for two years and it's not improved things for anyone except billionaires.
It all makes perfect sense when you understand one thing: he's doing it for himself. The billionaires just happen to benefit from those same policies too.