They still believe the threat of 'No deal' was leverage, despite the fact the EU were making it absolutely clear that it wasn't.
The Benn Act came precisely because the PM didn't have any ideas, had promised to leave by an arbitrary date in the Conservative elections, and was shutting down democracy to ensure that he could.
What this argument amounts to is:

Democracy is the reason we couldn't sort out the deal, because it got in the way of a threat that the other side had made very clear they were not threatened by.
Why do Brexiteers hate democracy?

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One involved accepting this deal.
One involved renegotiating this deal and putting it to a referendum.

The majority backed the Conservative party. Those voters can blame the deal on themselves, or the Conservative party for adopting it.
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