Trump said he's going to make another political party for himself too so it's a lose lose for republicans. Either they convict him in the impeachment trial and bar him from future office and piss off Trump supporters or they don't convict him, Trump makes the new political party and splits the vote between Republicans and the Trump party allowing Democrats to win easily

German Industrialist Fritz Thyssen bankrolled Hitler's run for office.

Fritz wound up escaping to Switzerland in the middle of the night, years later.

Capitalists always think they can control Fascists, and they're always wrong.