The cancer of progressivism has taken root and is now metastasizing. The public education system has worked and will manifest things like this in blue enclaves around the country (the cities) and seats of power. This is already clear in the tech sector. That these candidates wouldn’t be repudiated and thrown out on their ears by the voters is telling.
Sadly you are correct. The only thing holding them back us us old fogies. Once we head to that great Tea Party in the Sky the country is going Socialist.