Unfortuntely have to agree with you, except for one minor point. He actually narrowly missed getting a majority of the popular vote in 96.
You may be correct as far as the impact this book will have in the short term out in the country. But this is the kind of revelation that will KILL them in Washington. They will pay a heavy, heavy price...and mark my words, this is the kind of thing that will be a huge millstone around their neck in the months and years just ahead.
His punishment is in his future and I imagine there will be "wailing and gnashing of teeth" on that day.
On that we will agree, unless they should repent. Those of those who have watched the man lo these many years suppose, perhaps rightly, that he is so hardened and so cynical that he never will; but only God really knows that for sure..