Upvoted. This is true. It's exactly what happened and why. It only 'worked' -- for a given definition of same -- because the average ideologically indoctrinated Dem Party member was conditioned to never EVER think independently.
If the leadership -- and their elites -- SAID that something was so then it MUST therefore be so. No actual independent research or thought required, desired, or permissible. So mote it be.