How do we know we are close to the end and POTUS still is in control?

The only way to weed out the most insidious enemies on the GOP side is to look as weak as possible. Those rats would only come out when they thought there was no way for POTUS to win.

He had to look lame duck as possible to squeeze the last remaining bit out of the swamp on the right. He knew the Left was his enemy. He needed the Mark Meadows et al, to come out of the woodwork.