I agree with you on all of this... and from a practical perspective one could argue it doesn't matter if he's a Kremlin agent or not if everything he does is in

I agree with you on all of this... and from a practical perspective one could argue it doesn't matter if he's a Kremlin agent or not if everything he does is indistinguishable from what a Kremlin agent would do. But also if we are theorycrafting conspiracy theories, I think the explanation that makes most sense is widespread systemic blackmail originating from Russia but now spreading out virally through Trump. Because the suspicious behavior is not just coming from Trump but also the very many people who flipped from being very vocally against him to being pathetically loyal (see: Graham, Rubio, Cruz, Vance, and dozens of others). It feels to me like there's got to be more going on there than people just hitching their wagons for political expediency, because a lot of them also have to know that this is all a cult of personality and when Trump is gone their wagons are going to be thrown into chaos and yet they've still hitched them...