@boeswilligkeit @Shadowman311 I've long been saying they DON'T have control over most of their followers. When they replaced religion and the civic fabric with their new hybrid faith they failed to institute a control mechanism, expecting media as a whole to suffice.
But now everyone's splintered so they can't wrangle the tards, herd the cats like they want to. All these schemes and plans require building of alliances and coalitions, it only looks so unified to us because at a certain level they've scrubbed all those who don't know how to play the game. But below that, the middle managers aren't at all unified.
Their trump case for one. They were probably kicking themselves the whole time, because it was weak, counterproductive, embarrassing for everyone who wasn't a 41 yo single woman "on the right side of history". It used up goodwill for nothing, hurt their own interests, and had a failed plan from the outset - if that were a plan of theirs they'd have brought better munitions to court....but it wasn't their call, it was one of 'theirs' acting how she pleased thinking she was doing right by the team when she really did just as much harm for the cause as good