as a fickle public went on to the next shiny object, it was more to give the administration breathing room and time to try to hang this around the necks of the Democrats or, failing that, figure out how to make one of their core issues and main conspiracy theories just sort of evaporate into the ether, maybe along with welcoming that murderous bastard Putin onto US soil.

Whatever, it failed miserably. I'll give the MAGAts this much, when they fall in love with some conspiracy theory, they hang onto it with pit bull tenacity.