Wonderful post, Caitlin!
I go one step further and say these propagandists are the same Cabal they've always been using religion in premodernity to achieve the same ends. Their new religion is money or what I call the God KA$H and they've ushered in an 'Age of Usury' as the means of this religion.
In my New Earth Commons, I look to a compromise between left and right ideologies but that can't be implemented by the oligarchs (neoliberalism) which only led to our mafia run billionaire control grid becoming more toxic and their cynical reaction to the complaints of the 'proles' was to force Trump on us all.