The thing about the boy who cried wolf is that there really was a wolf, and if the villagers were so concerned that the boy was incompetent to watch the sheep because of his false alarms, they should have replaced him. We may be getting the moral of this story all wrong. Mostly you are correct. And even if when all the votes are counted, Harris ends up winning the popular vote by a narrow margin, still ~50% of voters chose Trump and his authoritarianism, eyes wide open.