Wrong.
As a fighting party, rather than an accomodationist party, the Democrats short-term goal is to make their base more discontented, more angry, more fanatical, to prepare them for the moment when the Crisis of Capitalism culminates and the Revolutionary Vanguard seizes power.
The outcome of elections determined by simple arithmetical counting of votes, especially in benighted swamps like Louisiana, concerns them not at all.
And, let's be honest. Is there anything about Republican victory that SHOULD give them any reason for concern?
Demodummies have been given their marching orders when it comes to voting against ANYTHING they support. There is no freedom for any of them to decide good or bad otherwise. “You will vote as we tell you or else”.
Going agains’t them will get you an office in the basement next to the door where the trash is sent.
But by allowing the vote under his iron rule and then voting against her, she can take it personally and so can the American people.
Democrats do not vote for the people, they vote for power over people. Your characterization of them as the Revolutionary Vanguard is spot on.
And as far as the Republican “victory” is concerned (actually it was a case of winning by default), for the next two years the Dems will go right back to their old reliable, and highly successful, manipulation tactics against the hapless and naive Pubbies. They will con them into “reaching across the isle” and joining them in passing “bipartisan” legislation. But this just means “let’s do it our way”. It will be back to the same old game that we’ve seen play out countless times before.