Describing what's been going on behind the scenes in Capitol Cabal Country as a "coup" leaves me to compare it more accurately as a confab, close-quarter knife fight of dons in struggle over who will have control over the crime syndicate.
No real "changes of heart" being in the mix. Only powerful people seeking to increase and consolidate their own control over equal avarice in the loosely allied company they keep.
We are NOT talking politicians here. We are looking at gangsters posing as politicians. For whatever legitimacy that might provide, they'd just as well claim to be lawyers. Oh. Wait. Some do.