Of course it will backfire. Progressives these days have no real values aside from extracting as much money as possible from governments and citizens without providing any value in return. Once this strategy stops working, they will turn on each other. Their loyalty to each other is fake, just like everything else in their lives.

Everything they say and do is founded on lies; that's why they depend so much on each other for support and reinforcement. It's a religion. The only way they can maintain their nonsensical ideologies is through repeated, mutual brainwashing.