Which is what they were banking on - not by any actions on their part, but on expected trends, such as inflation shrinking and oil prices going down, as well as continued growth of the economy, which they would have taken credit for as if it was the results of the gleaming wonderfulness of their GOPer nutsacks.
Meanwhile, Putin's lumbering rusting excuse for an army continues to flounder at a clip accelarated by undertrained and unmotivated conscripts from not-quite-Russian regions. China still hasn't invaded Taiwan yet still. And NK hasn't nuked SK. This will, of course, all have occured because double digit IQ cultists with fascistic leanings in Congress are just so intimidating, as witnessed by how the cockroaches ran and hid as their own Brownshirt supporters ran roughshod through the Capital 1/6/21.