I believe that observation is a dead-center bullseye.
Before that, even though their game plan didn’t pan out, their attempts to back the traitor Zelaya’s takeover of Honduras was the first indication to me that the 0bama-Hillary presidency was going to be a no-limits run for as many socialist/globalist touchdowns as they could get.
I think you correctly identify the point in time when they knew that the opposition was going to stand down and attempt no blocks or interceptions. The GOPe took dive after dive and let them run the scoreboard.
And Trump was a monkeywrench thrown in the gears of their long-term takeover plan. Sooner or later another Rat is POTUS, and the plan will be back on track. This will end in civil war, one way or another.