Not really. He comes across to me as scared shitless. He thinks he is at risk of losing everything (he is, we all are) and he’s willing to deal with the devil to keep a little of what he’s got. A case of the old Nazi Germany tale of the Jewiah merchant who kept saying “surely it won’t get worse than this” straight up until he boarded the train for the camp.
You are right. Many in the political class have exactly that problem. They are beneficieries of the corupt system of money lending and the govt ponzi scheme and don’t want to experience the pain necessary to cast off the yoke of tyranny.