It's such a dumb idea that literally the only thing I can come up with here is that the people pushing for it think a Trump presidency will be better for them, personally.
Anecdata, but: On Here the people I follow are, like me, aghast at the coordinated move to blow up the campaign over one bad performance. On Facebook all my boring reliable Blue voter friends have 100% swallowed the NYT line and are gibbering over which horse to try to leap onto. Losing my mind