Yep, that's precisely what some people want. They want a fight. Doesn't matter who or what suffers in the process, let's just have a big party-destroying fight.
Let's just have a big Democrat party-destroying fight. Send them to follow the Whigs and let a pro-American 2nd party evolve to replace them. Much better than the Neville Chamberlin 'Rat appeasing strategy of the GOP RHINOs. Finish off the 'Rats. End the plague of liberalism.