Of course, “stop the steal” isn’t the only area in which Trump overpromised and delivered virtually nothing. The U.S.-Mexico border remains almost entirely un-walled. Hillary Clinton is un-locked up. Obamacare is still the law of the land. The coronavirus did not disappear “like a miracle.”

It is ironically funny that a Trump fundraising arm has renamed itself “Make America Great Again, Again”—which is an implicit acknowledgement that Trump fell short of making America great again the first time. This irony seems completely lost on Trump’s followers.

In continuing to fall for cynical lies meant to boost short-term approval, the Republican Party has now effectively become the Elizabeth Holmes party. Trump and Holmes are mirror images of one another, both running the same transparent scam.

As philosopher Michael Oakeshott observed, “To try to do something which is inherently impossible is always a corrupting enterprise.” Both Trump and Holmes should have that engraved on their headstones.