The especially menacing part of the scenes with the "Christmas Adventurers Club" is just...they're not slackjawed hicks whose every second word is a slur, they're not foaming at the mouth about whatever they think "Judeo-Maoists" or whatever are up to today, and they don't get onto Twitter to reply "concerning..." to footage of the protest in the 2nd act as di Caprio's character "Bob" tries to escape the city. We don't know if they're politicians, venture capitalists or "tech bros", just that they're puppeteering from the shadows.