The high ups know this is over or they wouldn't already be burning people. I think they still think they can flip it back in 10 years if they force a pyrrhic victory rather than just retreating. If they retreat, they're gone for a generation or two. Worth mentioning it took almost 50 years to build the WEF from a middling organization to a jetsetter cult of politicians and think tanks. It'll lose steam fast just by America walking its own path long enough for the current 50 year faces to die.
The high ups know this is over or they wouldn't already be burning people. I think they still think they can flip it back in 10 years if they force a pyrrhic victory rather than just retreating. If they retreat, they're gone for a generation or two. Worth mentioning it took almost 50 years to build the WEF from a middling organization to a jetsetter cult of politicians and think tanks. It'll lose steam fast just by America walking its own path long enough for the current 50 year faces to die.
The victory will be more complete than a generation or two.