I think you're on to something. I think there's also a big timing issue involved. The hard left has taken over the Democrat party lock, stock and barrel. Every voice of moderation has been locked in the basement. Political correctness and diversity mythology has reached a critical mass under the reign of the lawyers, academics, and rich dilettantes that run the left these days. They're hoist on their own petard, as it were. They united the crazed rabble, and now the rabble has taken over.
Our side came up with two grown-ups, and the contrast couldn't be more obvious.
O represents the birth of a Cook County/Mayor Daley/old boy network “son”. Not a leg to stand one but hoisted on the shoulders of these guys and Big Money Men.