Back in 2016 I bought into the idea that the GOP was doomed due to demographics. Maybe they still are in the long run. But I made the mistake of thinking the DNC was a cool, well-oiled machine. With organisations this big and ideologically diverse, you're gonna get friction, and whatever you can criticise Republicans for, they aren't anywhere near as internally divided as the Democrats are.
There's no mutual affinity that binds the Dems together, it's an alliance of political necessity. I get the feeling that amid all the backstabbing and chicanery, there are a few strategists in the DNC that really want the next 2 decades of policy to be exactly what you're describing, and ultimately secure a quiet win.
Meanwhile in another camp, there's what I guess I would call populists, who are totally fine with pushing harmful rhetoric if it secures them and their buddies jobs in contested races, and then on the other other side, you've got ethnic activists, gay campaigners and socialists, that have analysed the demographic map more than Stormfront, and figured they don't even need to be polite to win, the clock is on their side. Hence, the desire to push and push as fast as possible, because in their view victory is an inevitability anyway.
Imagine if they held off on the statue shit until 2050. What the Atlanta and Minneapolis police are dealing with right now is an effective criminalisation of their livelihoods. You follow procedure and training to a tee and still get fired and charged with murder? Fuck that. Now, had the Dems waited a few decades to do any of this then victory would've been assured if current trends held that long, as the GOP wouldn't be able to muster an electoral rejection of such behaviour.
In short, this whole saga is doing a lot to dispel any notion of grand conspiracy, especially competent conspiracy. Conspiracies do exist, for sure, but it isn't one cabal managing the entire DNC. It's more like 50 different factions who, while individually conspire, in actuality are fucking over one another and the long-term win in pursuit of their own immediate gains.
