I think they are actively trying to incite a civil war / color revolution and that is one reason it had to play out like this. From day 1 they were expecting him to stop the witch hunt so they could claim obstruction and they have bounced from one ill planned scheme to the next.

Trump is constantly rope a doping them because they are fighting against the straw man they have built up that bears no resemblance to Trump himself. He is denying them that color revolution.