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People are generally too obsessed with the current thing and the news cycle rather than the bigger picture.
For example, I hate Trump for ICE, the Iran War, and affordability. I hated him for those things yesterday and I'll hate him for those things tomorrow. But people seem to think there needs to be constant, wall-to-wall coverage about how every time he sneezes it's the worst thing anyone's ever done and his mucus is now defiling the dignity of the noble halls of blah blah blah. It's counterproductive for so many reasons, first it lets the enemy control the focus, second people just get tired of hearing it, third it takes the focus away from the GOP in general, when Trump is a lame duck who'll be gone soon anyway. And the shit about how he'll cancel elections was always exaggerated and unrealistic, but it was taken as absolute fact, you had people being like, "Oh, you sweet Summer child," and whatnot just if you acknowledged the midterms would happen. So now those people have egg on their face and someone might see that and think, "Oh, people were being alarmist, Trump isn't as bad as people thought after all."
Not me, though obviously. Because I still hate him for ICE, the Iran War, and affordability. The same reasons I hated him yesterday and the same reasons I will hate him tomorrow.
That's part of the republican strategy for Trump. Firehose of bullshit, pretty sure Bannon and Epstein were talking about it in the epstein files.