Honestly speaking, it wasn't a loss. It was a necessary maturing for our governance and discourse to get to the next level.
He had an opinion. It was challenged. He didn't defend it. He left and took his ball him like a coward.
It was a constant pattern of playing the victim. His way or nothing. This absolutism is toxic and destructive. We gain nothing as a community and ecosystem venerating those that propagate it.
Find better leaders and role models