No, they've tried, they've trotted out friends of friends to make plausibly deniable insinuations and rumours and stuff, and no one's buying it. Even the Tumblr Teens who are very begrudgingly taking Biden are completely over her.

The secret to secret uniparties is that being self-defeating is a vital defense mechanism and tool for survival. I mean, it's the classic litmus test for if you're being fed propaganda:

"The enemy is cunning and devious and wants your end so you should be scared into following our orders, but also the enemy is foolish and weak and incompetent so you should have confidence in our supremacy!"

This one of the most well-known thought pattern tricks used to stir sentiment from one group against another. Every side did it towards every one else in the Hot World War days (I highly recommend browsing 20th century wartime propaganda to see at full opacity the methods still employed today through subtler means). But what if you could have a system where this wasn't just propaganda, but true propaganda?

What if the other side was almost hilariously self-defeating, and "your side" was equally as obviously self-defeating in hilarious ways to the "other side"?

I should mention that the historical record we have suggests that classic Human Incompetence is the standard order of the day, and "great leaders" who move history by intention owe as much to luck as anything else. But as Empires collapse, things tend to get beyond the pale, as the politics themselves that should be serving the masses become the bread and circuses to distract them.