Needed to have the bad actors expose themselves with midterm elections? Also a LOT of waking people up started with Kavenaugh debacle and it needed to be done carefully. It's been stressful and frustrating wanting to have this move faster but looking back I don't think the sleeping masses would have kept up otherwise and many would have shut down mentally/emotionally. They've been methodically letting the bad guys ruin themselves mistake after mistake and the public get more and more outraged as they finally become aware. I also think they used the "almost done" Mueller report rumors for months to see what shook loose.  First in anticipation (like CreepyPornLawyer making a fool of himself over and over with his false predic  31d5  tions and fake gotchas) then in frustration (like we've seen last month or so the Dems like Schiff suddenly stopped supporting Mueller report and started dismissing it - people noticed).