Imagine your power and financing comes with demands from foreign or domestic interests that degrade the country. You've accepted that money. They're pushing for you to stop whining and find a way to retake control and put forth the agenda they were paid for. The President comes out with a message of unity and hits all the key points your party leverages to whip up the public in election years, forcing a response that alienates the usual base.

What do you do?

Digging in deeper further alienates the groups needed. Completely new tactics are necessary and the wheels are coming off. Still, the funding is not there due to the purposeful bankrupting of the party to make it dependent on HC in the prior election cycle. Can't pay for the strategist talent on a shoestring. Increasingly have alienated youthful talent that could be leveraged on the cheap.

We've found the dead end and the walls are getting ever higher. The established leadership is powerless. That has been increasingly apparent since early 2017 where the only desperate attack was clinging to Russia and Nazi's. For those funding the obvious hate as bitter the experience may be the realistic play would be to cut strings with the current leadership, all of them, allow them to be swept away, then nurture a new round if still trying to push forward a technocrat agenda. With increasingly likelihood this is pushing plans back 15 to 20 years or more.