The corporatist Democrats are starting to say the quiet things out loud:
(1) They hope Trump wins the GOP nomination (pied piper strategy times 2) because they think Joe Biden can win against him.
(2) they hope black voters can be "kept in line" (literally used those words) and not defect in sufficient numbers to Cornel West
I have a feeling these democrats did not anticipate in their quant analysis that a black candidate would run for Green Party nominee. Polls show clearly it's the Achilles Heel of the already extremely risky Democratic strategy. And it was a very similar roll of the dice that got Trump elected in the first place.