Brian, it doesn't make much sense to ditch a leader
whose socialist agenda you are in agreement with, for a usurper who is trying to ape the incumbent but clearly doesn't believe a word of what he himself is saying.
In terms of a secret
agenda for collectivist authoritarianism, I admit a few liberal elites are that depraved — I was myself shocked by the degree to which the leaders of the Democratic
Socialists of America, the ones who helped train our current President and
whose leader (Michael Harrington) I myself read and admired in the 80s, were open to deception and smear - tactics, as revealed by Stanely Kurtz's Radical in Chief.