Idk about money, but if the goal was actually to co-opt the antiestablishment tide swell and dilute it to the point of impotence and endless waiting for 'the messiah' to come and fix all the problems, I'd say it has been a glorious success.
I'm too old to put the probability of such happening, here, now, after all we know has been perpetrated, and after all these years of consolidation of power by the establishment. It's a single-digit possibility, even given the overt insinuation that it required a military-intel coup to pull it off. And then there are the many, glaring contradictions.
And since when do Americans assume mil-intel coups proffer good tidings?
Sounds and looks much more like a plot to sterilize the actual threats to elites - and that would be par for the course in this nation.