But all the way to the end, liberals and "centrists" were totally blind to the reality of their collapse, simply hoping that the browbeating of apostatic Leftists into submission, combined with the old Hillary strategy of flipping conservative Republicans like Dick Cheney in a "Unity"-like ticket to defeat who they dubbed as "America's LePen", would work to substain the "centrist" duopoly.
In the end, though, it was Harris' own fakeness, just like Hillary's aloofness, that was her undoing.