Dem 1: We need to do something big to regain relevance. How about we convince all the members of our party in the Senate to overturn the filibuster so we can pass popular legislation like voting rights, background checks for gun purchases, and protect abortion rights?
Dem 2: That is way to difficult and complicated. Instead we should recruit the top scientific minds in the world to bioengineer an incredibly virulent man-made virus that will cause a world-wide pandemic and cause a global shutdown for multiple years, and kill millions cause that will help us beat Trump in 2020. This project will require 100's of billions of dollars in funding, and we need to do this in complete secrecy and need to prevent any of those those thousands of scientists and their assistants that we recruited for this project from ever talking to anyone, including their family members. If even one person talks to the press or law enforcement, we may get blamed for this, but i think we can manage that risk.
Dem 1: It's fool proof!