Let's not be charitable with them. It's the latter. They know exactly what they're doing.
You're spot on, and the knee jerk responses to Master's (read the DNC's) bidding will be there as well. You and Mh hit the lotto here. How sad that some members seem to find the suffering and ,frankly, destruction of those they purport to champion are considered the correct thinkers. How utterly bigoted and Orwellian.