You win the prize. That’s exactly what happened.
On our Princess ship balcony the first week in February 2020 when the chatter was increasing about this wicked flu we were concerned for about one minute. Then it occurred to us that it was an election year and then we realized the truth. It’s not that we didn’t continue to be concerned, but the subject changed. No longer concerned about the over-hyped flu, but about how the election would be stolen from Trump.
Yes, Trump has a spine of steel but even he could not overcome the deep state. He was alone.