What happens when a dog that won't hunt corners frightened prey

A dog corners prey.

Prey reacts in one of two predictable ways:

Flight, retreating in any unpredictable direction of defensive of self-preservation.

Or:

Fight, lashing outward in any unpredictable direction of aggressive self-preservation.

We have a dog that won't hunt for a Congress that has cornered the American populace.

Its prey cowers, muzzled with nothing more secure than a cloth mask.

The prey has stopped whimpering and started to growl.

If this dog that won't hunt is too dumb to discern the difference, it may find itself prey.