I remember way back in the early 1990s when I worked in DC for a three letter agency and I would have conversations with my co-workers and they'd start spouting off about this or that conspiracy theory and they would all seem to have gotten the same marching orders through some secret channel and I realized much later that it was the rise of Rush Limbaugh. Remember the dittoheads? (this is from 1993) https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1993-08-28-9308270768-story.html so this has been going on for a very long time and all their work is coming to fruition. Most likely with help from Russia. But I think they have gone sour on Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/us/politics/fox-news-trump-speech.html and know he is quickly turning radioactive and are shifting to their 2nd choice which is DeSantis who has been completely groomed/trained by these people to parrot everything Trump used to do but he's much smarter. The problem with all of this is that unless they can get Trump dead or thrown in a jail cell by 2024 he will run just to spite everyone and likely blow up the GOP side of the election, handing another victory to the democrats.