It could only have gone worse if all those progressives had done what you'd advised, made a show of opposing what the right calls "CRT"-i.e., made a show of no longer being antiracist- been loudly "law and order" - which can never again mean anything but being loudly in favor of doing mass incarceration and destroying ANOTHER generation of Black men's lives- and waving the damn flag. Nobody who ran that way could have done anything Democratic in office if they had been elected- the Bill Clinton years prove that, once and for all.