Bad time in history my ass. Biden's approval rating has more to do with reservations about his advancing age than anything else. There's zero reason to believe that if Trump would have been reelected that jobs would have rebounded as sharply as they did under Biden.
After all, GOP junk economics and interminable infrastructure weeks would have been in play. So too the GOP fatal fondness for Junk science would have assured a slower uptake of Covid vaxxes resulting in even more red state Covid fatalities.