That's the most interesting part to me. I still think it's bad faith and not incompetence. They need to be the only one in the room who can stop a man named "murderfucker" from fucking murdering people, but their game is to barely lose because they love murder also.

A 10% constituency of labor that either side would need to ally with to effect anything? They'll pass some bipartisan bullshit to stop and crush it. Even more - they'll stuff people into unmarked vans and the cops will just kill agitators with impunity. It's fucking bonkers