Yea. You can never really tell if they're either incredibly arrogant and naïve, or willfully malicious in being the controlled opposition that either facilitates continued Tory rule, or rules by their example.
Regardless, the outcome is the same.

The current line from the leadership and liberal commentariat is the same as it's been for decades - that the people are just more right-wing than you realise, and that Labour, despite having quite publicly ousted Corbyn and other prominent left figures and abandoned their left manifesto, is still perceived as too left-wing, and thus must continue shunting to the right in order to 'regain the trust of the people'.
This depends on the belief that Labour loses elections because voters switch their allegiance to the Conservatives that better represent their values.

This is in obvious contradiction with the facts; the statistics, which denote that Labour voters are not voting Labour, but also not voting Conservative - instead, they're voting Green, or not at all. Effectively the same thing happened in the last General Election when Corbyn was forced to adopt the liberal/right's anti-Brexit straw grasp measure.
It's embarrassingly transparent gaslighting.