Cummings' plans for the Civil Service are almost certainly only going to result in chaos and poor governance.
And a lot of people know that.
They're not interested in his weird, megalomaniac ideas/delusions about reforming governance into an anti-elite, agile force of maverick geniuses.
The chances of success there are near zero.
We know that - and we're just internet ransoms.
But the chances of pulling apart a significant force in good governance and stability are very high.
And the lovers of disaster opportunism and deregulation know that.
Cummings is, I think, a useful idiot (& as someone else said, Johnson is a vain, amoral, lazy toad - with a whiff of corruption about him). I'm quite sure Cummings believes his own hype. But that just makes him more useable.
It's where interests cohere.
It's a bit like some of the economic theories Thatcherites endorsed.
For some, they saw loss of manufacturing as an acceptable short-term loss to rebuild the economy and generate wealth.
For others (& these proved to be more prescient) they saw the economic argument as tinsel to cover the job losses & attacks on workers' rights - which were the goal in toto.
I'm pretty depressed about the way 2020 is shaping up.
And I am currently very angry about the populist forces (right and left) that dragged us here.
Oh, and of course we're not getting action on climate change. The resistance to getting action on climate change is huge. I suspect it's a massive factor in the donation of money to right-wing projects such as Trump and Brexit.