Sorcery

Except in this case, the party out of power says: “Don’t worry, I can solve all your problems. I can lower prices by just” — name a different scapegoat — “the billionaires! We’re going to punish the billionaires, and that is going to make your health care cheaper,” or what have you.
Catherine Rampell, “There Are Solutions to This Crazy Economy. Voters Will Hate Them.”

One of the side effects of this sort of "magical thinking," as Ms. Rampell termed it, is that it can license (and I suspect it does quite often) a belief in political Evil. After all, if there's something quick and straightforward that one's preferred political party can do that will result in an immediate fix to people's problems, then it stands to reason that those problems only persisted because the quick and straightforward thing was not done. And if it's quick, straightforward and simply wasn't done, then it stands to reason that the party in power didn't do it because they're deliberately perverse.

Sure, it's in overly simplistic answer to a complicated situation. But isn't magical thinking always like that?