The Fed's Failure to Act Preemptively on Inflation

Why didn't he try to act preemptively why did pal say several years ago that they were going to err on being too late rather than too early. He was willing to risk inflation getting out of control rather than act preemptively to stop it and potentially cause all that damage in the economy. I think it's the same predicament so the fed is done hiking rates it just doesn't want to say why because it doesn’t want to let that cat out of the bag but this would be meeting with precedent. Once you stop that hike cycle it's kind of hard to resume it especially when the markets now are starting to factor into the fact that some of these expected hikes are not going