The point is that power is kind of an elusive thing. You can keep it only so long as you are using it to benefit the people who gave you the power. Fail that and you lose. Do that and you may lose anyways as concerns shift to things you can't do.
So a self-absorbed game to keep power and keep it for your ingroup is doomed to failure if that is all you do. You are just creating your own vacuum of irrelevancy to fill.
To wit the utter down-deafness of the power elite to the border/immigration crisis and denial that it is even a problem. THEY created their own irrelevancy.
“doomed to failure”
The theme of the power elite, and their deep state cabal.