wouldn't they though? there's some interesting charts about media use of words like "Whiteness" "Woke" and similar identitarian SJW silliness. It basically instantly spikes with Obama's second term.
This cycle will be very SJW infested.
2016, those SJW folks were mostly in the 2nd and 3rd tiers of power. They had enough political power that Clinton had to pay homage with women's rights, reproductive rights, BLM, and all that...but it wasn't her only audience. Clinton was more concerned with typical Neo-Liberal ideology, not Progressive ideology. She probably didn't give a shit about any of that, sort of like how Trump probably doesn't give a shit about Pro-Life crowds, but does so because that's what his alliance requires.
So when Clinton lost in 2016, it pretty much put the Neo-Liberals on the backfoot. The corruption, the proclaimed inequality from a party that had tried to run on equality in 2016, and most of all, the lack of results is what led to the No-Liberals being put into this position. This is the last hurrah of the Neo-Liberals for the DNC. Of the elites, Biden is their choice, but Harris is an acceptable second. If the Neo-Liberals lose 2020, they know it's curtains for them. Pelosi, Schumer...they've got this all riding on this election.
Problem is, they may not even get the chance.
1) The Socialists want to win this. Their argument is that Bernie could have won if the DNC hadn't used Super Delegates. Which is probably not true, but the very public ass-fucking that Bernie got was apparent. And no American likes that super delegate system, because it's clearly there to override public opinion.
2) The Progressives are the ones that the Socialists and Neo-Liberals are chasing, but some of them have decided that they should be in charge and the other two the junior partners. That's where you get Booker from. And Warren too, I reckon, though she straddles the Socialist angle too. People like Booker don't want a white nominee. They want a dark-skinned nominee, preferably named Booker.
So 2020 will be all about Progressive ideology, because the competing centers of power within the DNC are chasing after it and is thus helping to form the Progressives as their own major power center. Probably the dominate power center. I expect thus, they will fail in 2020. I also expect the Progressives to fail in 2024, which will either force the party to be more moderate in its approaches or fail entirely and fall back towards a more Liberal stance.