Respectfully, (IMO) Pat was slowly but relentlessly prodded into irrelevancy (beginning the day after that speech) by the elitist opinion makers of both the right and the left.
No one can survive the attack of those thousand knives.
And now he is irrelevant. He is not taken as seriously by either ends of the political spectrum anymore and is considered by many conservatives an out of touch buffoon, cemented by his association with admitted communist Lenora Fulani.
As a conservative American and proud Zionist, I say good riddance to bad rubbish.