It isn't really the NWO crumbling if they're just replacing the players with another set of NWO goons. The cabal has plenty of pawns and it can afford to sacrifice them floating a policy to see if they can get away with it. This sort of action acts as a pressure relief valve where people angry over the direction of things think someone has actually paid a price for what they did, when the reality this guy is just getting swapped out from someone on the bench and will go on to earn a huge salary working at a think tank or NGO.

I'll believe they're crumbling when the people that take over start undoing the NWO's policies.