I wrote in another comment that Trump had somehow managed to piss off the fossil fuel industry who lost a lot of money under him, probably the first Republican president to have such remarkable performance lol.
In many ways, Biden and his wars are partly to make up the losses that the fossil fuel industry had to endure during Trump’s era.
Reminder that the Democrats want Republican donors, not Republican voters. It’s the 1% that matters. Without the donors, the Republicans won’t be able to run effective political campaigns in the future. And Trump just gave them the historic opportunity to do so.
Now that I’m thinking back the whole saga, it really felt like the nationalists led by Glazyev had made a serious miscalculation. He thought the moment had come after the war started and went high profile with his criticism of the Central Bank. Probably pissed off the wrong people and now he’s practically “disappeared” from the public discourse. This has been noted before amongst the chatter of certain Russian economics telegram channels - it really starts to make sense now.
I’m not going to psychoanalyze, but there is also the component that Glazyev is ethnic Ukrainian, so maybe he felt the need to go the extra “patriotic” route to avoid being seen as a provocateur by his enemies. But that only appeared to hasten his downfall.
There’s a lesson to all of you: if you want to do a coup, DO NOT paint yourself as an obvious target. Keep your heads down, slowly staff the bureaucracies with people you can trust, don’t piss off the wrong people, and then and only then, make your surprise move.