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Instead, Fisher has floundered.
The country floundered in uncertainty under the regency of Marie de Médicis, mother of the young Louis XIII, until Cardinal Richelieu took charge as prime minister in 1624.
There was a succession of right-wing attempts to govern and Spain floundered in a sea of political strikes and violence.
well, floundered.
I don't want to psychologize, but clearly he simply found himself unable to manage this large and difficult subject, floundered, and grasped onto a series of unwise devices that derailed the project--of which the fictional narrators are only one, and not the most disastrous.