You are spot on! This is coming from a 71 years young, black male and Florida resident.
I am glad I am not the only one who can see it.
There is no good explanation for all this enthusiasm for West given his record of going along to get along when it mattered, and having no political leadership items to his credit.
His explicit excuse was fear of retribution (from Congressional leadership), but he was not made a Congressman on a platform of cowing in fear to the status quo, he was elected on a platform of opposing that status quo and was completely ineffective at it due to allowing that fear to neutralize him.