The electorate was in fact already awake.
Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace and the rest of the staffer and donor Mean Girls aced the gov out of higher office because she was a loose cannon and she wasn’t quite their type and didn’t particularly give a crap about being not quite their type. The problem of course is that they ended up getting a loose cannon who definitely isn’t their type, has even fewer bleeps to give about not being their type, and can fund his own campaign. It’d take a heart of stone not to laugh. Bullet, Nic...you do know you could probably get the gov back. If you ask really, really nicely.