It just underlines what I've said before here: the sentiment of "credit for fighting" is bullshit because the reality is folks will not give you credit for trying. It's win or fail, and failure isn't treated as a setback, but a permanent tattoo of disgrace that stains you forever.

When Trump won that sentiment disappeared like it had never existed. Overnight everyone changed their tune to "the Harris campaign was mangled from the start tbh and we all knew this".