Let me break it down.

Using their only real leverage to extract some concessions: good.

Messaging like they're desperados in a gunfight with Trump when he barely remembers their names, instead of using the moment to effectively communicate to voters a narrow pro-worker agenda guided by deep principles and not data firm triangulated bullet points: bad.

Publicly talking about giving up before they get anything at all, because they have no spine: bad.

Not publicly talking about doing whatever it takes, and instead trying to approach Trump and radiating weakness the entire time they do it: bad.

Not making Trump send his designated negotiator to come to them, like someone with leverage does: bad.

Inevitably folding before they get anything of substance: bad.

Do you remember when Democrats briefly tried to message to the youths on social media and recorded that terrible "choose your fighter" montage because video games, and all it served to do was communicate how deeply out of touch they are at a Pokemon Go to the polls level? They even roped AOC into it. I'm confident she thought it was a terrible idea but went along with it to make nice and maybe because she was just happy they were trying literally anything. And then it disappeared immediately because of the above and they just gave up completely after that? And now poor 110-year-old Bernie is out there trying to engage with voters practically single handedly, except when AOC joins him, while the animated corpse of Chuck Schumer imagines he's playing 8D chess but coming across like Milton from Office Space.