> it's the richest people in the world holding on to power while the
  > neoliberal house of cards that made them rich comes crumbling down.

Bingo. With al their tax rulings, exemptions, privatizations of public services, disinvestment in education, the ecosystem starts to suffer. They either reverse course, share power, go to a win-win mindset, or... double down and hollow out the last institutions, while distracting people with rage about imaginary transgenders and people with melanin. When the host dies, they jump onto the next victim. There are already sightings of Vance in Germany.

What we are seeing time and time again, the parasites are able to reprogram the host, steering it towards its own death.