Well, maybe he knows this is the final straw that destroys the country as it pushes the US into bankruptcy. When that happens, he and a bunch of others in DC won’t have to worry about voting albeit they may have to worry about how they did vote in the past which got us to that point.
“Winning ugly” is never a comfortable fit. But “losing ugly”, total surrender and abandonment of all vestiges of honor or judgment, is even less attractive.
This is about as ugly a loss as could be conjured up, the anal rape of a badly bludgeoned victim. Humiliation beyond redemption.