They start to only half-believe the lie. They don’t say it was a hoax, and when desperate, they will still claim it was true when they are losing in a debate, but we know what the left have given up on by what they don’t push. They don’t push the Rittenhouse Hoax anymore, they don’t push the Charlottesville Hoax anymore, they don’t push MuellerTime anymore, they don’t demand justice for Jussie anymore, they practically never argue Russian Collusion.

If you asked them specifically about each one, they would still say they believe them, but deep down they don’t. Remember when they were going to never let Rittenhouse go? They were going to rise up if justice didn’t happen? Where did that go? It deflated when enough them looked into the case and realized they were duped, yet again. But they don’t come out and go, “I was duped! I was wrong!” They just quietly drop it and stop bringing it up.