I mean, his Wall Street Journal libertarianism for the rich impulses simmered quietly until he began to realize he needed to curry favor with the current administration.
Ptolemy was trying to curry favor with Caesar by killing his enemy, but Caesar was mad in that the-only-person-who-gets-to-tease-my-little-brother-is-me kind of way, except with murder instead of teasing.
So how much do you think this is about, you know, companies wanting to curry favor with the current administration or avoid public backlash from the right wing?
Other people would say so, and would allege that he was currying favor with Bulstrode for the sake of making himself important and getting on in the world.