Roger Stone, Stephen Miller, etc had played the part of the Wall Street Bankers or whatever in your scenario, with Twitter and other new media replacing the role of the tv broadcast media.
This time, there’s a different set of players playing the wealthy set controlling change, not just Musk or Vivek but other million/billionaire players
From my perspective, they’re the same. Old media/new media,, ‘wall street bankers’ vs tech bro billionaires.