Nobody understands. This much so far is not even close to the stunning part.
This was not a one off occurrence. Intelligence operations covertly subvert. If they fail, they creep off, lick their wounds, and try again. At some point, maybe very early in the formation of the US a very early intel op got a toehold in the US (probably with the King’s spy networks, which we never purged) and it spent a long, long time, slowly building a network.
This was not a one-off anomaly. It was a culmination - the culmination which prompted a rival op dedicated to the idea of America to pull the trigger and try to purge it.
None of these actors are the top of this food chain - they are employees - even Hillary - and Obama especially, who was practically created in a factory. And this isn’t a US phenomenon. The op which penetrated and got this much control in the US is transnational - and likely a non-state actor led by people who view the state-actors as pawns.
This thing is going to go much higher - and much lower. Many of us have been seeing the lower levels for years, even decades. Think this is surprising? Wait until you find out that one, you know agents of this thing in your own life, and two, they fed intel up the chain that went to a curator who you have never met who knows you personally, and who manages a file of yours (among many others) for this thing that has in it reports from those “friends” of your’s, as well as recordings of private conversations and private events you would never think anybody could have access to or observe.
This thing hasn’t been even one thousandth of a percent revealed yet.
There are allot of very powerful people that don't want to deal with the light of day. Like I said before...it's all as if we are living in a Tom Clancy novel. Freakin creepy.