>after numerous campaign losses
>after complied strategic failure
>after not being able to fundraiser well
>after disloyal hit-pieces
>
>I'm dumbfounded

It's a jobs program for earnest liberals who grew up watching The West Wing. Politics, for them, is getting somebody with a "D" next to their name in office instead of somebody with an "R". That's it. The party doesn't believe in anything and can't be counted on to fight for anything.

See, for instance, Ralph Northam taking a "not right now" approach to repealing VA's Right to Work law when he was elected in 2017. Now the Democrats have Northam as a governor and control the Virginia legislature and he's threatening to stand in the way of any legislative action that could help build end right to work and build union power in a state that is just starting a blue-ward turn.