He’s not perfect.
On December 14, 2020, the Electoral College confirmed Joe Biden won the presidential election. Steve Schmidt registered as a member of the Democratic Party. Since 2018 he had been an Independent, and prior to that he had a long history as a Republican operative.
Among his clearest failures, he recommended Sarah Palin as McCain’s running mate in the 2008 Presidential campaign.
Among his clearest recoveries, he later tweeted about her “paranoia, pathological lying, profound ignorance, bitterness, and insanity.”
If he were hiker, I would suggest Slugger for his trail name.
And history marches on.