Once you realise that they all think we have less than 10 years to the total collapse of civilisation, everything they do makes sense.
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The gilded age is about absolute control of the current society, not a post apocalypse hellscape. It is about establishing a US kleptocracy ala Russia. Its about reaping all the current richness of American resources into their pockets directly, about replacing people with whatever robot is possible until you have literal wage slaves.
It will cause a reckoning, but they think they can control some semblance of the current nation, not the aftermath of a destroyed "total collapse" American that OP is talking about.
they are trying to make themselves rulers before the "apocalypse". this is what they seem to be jumping the gun on.
i say this because fascism is used by capitalists to assert control, but there wasnt strong pushback to justify it. they are smarter than they make it look like and seem to be planning ahead.
they already do this, not just in the US... thats why everyone else is struggling, its not like our work is valueless, its that value is already being siphoned to oligarchs pockets.