We can’t let the mea culpas confuse the fact that it was all done on purpose.
It was a scam from the beginning. There are no innocents on the Warmenista side. There are those who purposely manipulated the data for the sake of destructionist ideology and there are those so deeply invested in the destructionist ideology that they couldn’t allow themselves to use even the most basic critical thinking on the issue.
All of them are guilty of theft by fraud.