Short sometimes it just dies,hot wired at the ignition key maybe neutral safety

I took the coloumn apart ,pulled the plug apart and hotwired the incoming plug half..before that you had to move the shifter around to get it to start,all of a sudden complete power failure on all gauges,then restart sometimes 20 times until the motor reved up this got worse every day all gauges died for a few seconds then start back up

ProfessorG is on target. Most of those items get powered up through the ignition switch.