I have to admit one brilliant aspect of this plan.
At all points along the way, the plan was 'deniable', or crazy, or unlikely, or viewed as a larp, etc. This ultimately convinced [them] that in the end the Plan was a nothing burger. Some of them got skeered, sure. Some of them cooperated. But it seems the vast majority of them decided it was all just hopium on our part, and that in the end their side had enough power and control. They doubled down on the tyranny. They are ALL IN, so-to-speak.
Makes me wonder if Q team had a simultaneous plan circulating thru blackhat circles, essentially helping them all conclude that we would fail in the end.