He is steering a boat by having his hand on the tiller.
If no hand on the tiller the boat will likely travel in circles or crash on shoals or swamp itself if a sailboat.
There is no boat. There is no tiller. A bunch of libs and communists simply ‘deemed’ reality and moved ahead if if all imaginary things were so. Once in power they ‘made’ reality.
That is afterall the core idea behind being the people they were waiting for.
The Ship of State.