He was far from perfect. I think he actually believed medicine wasn't utterly corrupt beyond their money making plans. But the amount of shit he did to counter globalism... if you can still call him controlled opposition with a straight face, your clown shoes are bigger than mine. The only sense in which he was controlled was that literally everyone in US gov is corrupt. He wasn't controlled opposition like Tucker or Hannity. And he was smart enough to not alienate normies like you said. He showed us how to win. But far less than expected stood up and followed.