I thought this was commonly known to be how human society works. Sometimes with just power and not literal wealth, but the same concept.

It's how people trust the suits on tv that have been wrong about everything, but sure, let's let the establishment run the opposition to the president, see, it wasn't their fault! It's not like the voters made it clear they wouldn't vote for their sell out. But since the suits said it was bigotry it's ok to let the same people continue to run the opposition.