That is the operation in a nutshell.

Effectively the political version of pouring sand in a crankcase or sugar in a fuel tank. Same result as a coup, we're a broken country.

This is a lot more efficient way to do it than a coup d'etat, after which you would have to run the country.

At all levels.

It's a cuckoo

They plant their eggs in other birds' nests. and when they hatch, the real babies are forced out of the nest, to their deaths.

Cuckoo eggs have hatched in the WH.