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The oligarchs don't really care about becoming philosopher kings. They just want power for power's sake.
He's also a terrible puppet for that. Proof that if there is a shadowy cabal ruling everything, they're really shitty at it.
Tying to hijack and taking control of the political machinery by oligarchy isn't as streamlined as one would imagine. Oligarchs first goal is to get rid of pesky governments regulating their unbridled thirst for power and wealth. But they don't have a plan on how to maintain power. Even then, they have their own goals that would eventually conflict with each other. Plato observed this long ago. As we see today, Musk and others funded Trump, but Musk wanted to loosen immigration to allow cheap immigrant labour that oligarch companies love to exploit, which pissed off anti-immigrant oligarchs like Steve Bannon and Kristi Noem.