That was potentially one of the courses of action they could have taken, albeit, probably the worst one.
Doubling down on stupid rarely gets you anywhere.
But it is typical leftist thinking. If what they are doing isn’t working, just do more of it and that’s the ticket, then it will work, because they can NEVER admit they were wrong.
If they cave, they lose power, and they are not willing to give that up.
I hope and pray that it backfires on them.