I actually don't disagree with you in principle. However I am of the position that as long as even the barest vestige of electoralism holds up and the Boog hasn't kicked off, optics remains a consideration, since without it we have no way of dragging anyone rightward (clearly still possible to some extent if Virginia could be flipped two years ago) or using the process to grab & hold as much power as possible on the local & state levels, which will be important to any future confrontation (aside from obvious examples like DeSantis or other blood-red state governors, John Gibbs for example gained power locally and is working to turn his Michigan town into a right-wing bastion). Even Literally Hitler and the Nazis had to play within those confines in Weimar.

At the very least we should be avoiding unforced errors that essentially do the enemy's work for them and which bring us no gain. Which is what happened here, the TN GOP didn't meaningfully alter the legislative balance of power (because it was decisively in their favor already) and now press/leftist accusations of waycism will have a little more bite to them. Doesn't even hammer the 'behave yourselves' message home because, of course, one of the guilty parties wasn't punished despite obviously deserving it.