The analogy might be to a situation in which the Bond villains win, and take control of society, both the large systems of power and the management of small stores and cafes, and then they collectively realize that to hold power, they have to solve these problems which have nothing at all to do with their unending and eternal battle with Bond, Q., et al. As if a hostile corporate takeover had populated the Yankees bench with nepo prospects. You're still watching them try to win the game, and sort of wondering if they can. Pragmatism and corporatism. The beginning of the ebb of the state, perhaps.
Perhaps I should take up fly fishing.