"Maybe. Maybe we could have had the V maybe not - we won’t ever know. We are dealt with the cards on the table - now how do we play this game to get it back where it was."
Your conservatives dealt your deck. You own it as you poo-pooed tried and true mitigation measures all the way. You own what you have.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”