The party trots out a few people to performatively fall on the sword, ones that it doesn't even impact ultimately, and then they get to pretend that people "broke ranks" when the capitulation comes from the top down.
The young desperately want someone, anyone, to actually believe in... and it isn't Chuck "strongly worded letter" Schumer or some other limp and ineffectual bureaucrat trying to do damage control for the Democrat party.
He who controls the spice, controls the universe.