Has American First been taken over by the establishment?

Right-wing movements have come and gone quickly in the United States. They often do it in a more swift and collapsing style, mainly because unity is lacking in such movements, especially with a weak and sham 'conservative' establishment far more interested in maintaining its own power and money than doing anything good for the movement. Because while the New Left of the 1960s had the unity and the energy to move past its initial ‘wave' period of that decade (to borrow a line from Hunter S. Thompson) to take over the Democratic Party and important cultural institutions, the various revolutions of the right have been lazy at best, and ignorant at worst on this, allowing their disunity and disloyalty to dominate their movement, as opposed to anything meaningful.

The Old Right of the 1950s were taken over by a lame duck conservatives of the William F. Buckley and National Review tradition of who were unwilling to fight the New Left on one end and the conspiratorial and nutty John Birch Society sect on the other, leading it hard to be taken seriously as a consequence. The Reagan Revolution of the 1980s was taken over by both by neoliberals, who emulated the free market economics of Reagan but lacked the heart, and neoconservatives, of who supported taking a tougher line against America’s enemies, but often at the expense of the US and often ignored the legitimate threats within America…