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Yes. Well put.
But they clearly missed a critical piece of the puzzle.
All of the secret groups act independently like terror cells or mafia families.
They don't communicate with each other at the lower levels and they tend to become self important and competitive.
Even though they all want to win, they are all working toward a common goal.
But the closer they get to realizing that goal, the urge sets in to start jockeying for position to finish first among themselves.
At that point, they start turning on each other and sabotaging their 'fellows' to make sure 'their' faction ends at the top of the heap.
That appears to be the weak spot POTUS and the white hats are exploiting. They are eating their own in the race to win.
Let them kill each other off, then deal with those that remain.
At least, that's what I think is happening.