I legitimately can’t tell if the Taproot Wizards people are trying to tank any chance of OP_CAT activation by running around claiming their for-profit company is going to forcibly activate a bitcoin soft-fork or not. 
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Maybe they have supporters that have been enjoying the high fees. Like an antpool or f2pool.
They have been training their 'wizards' on running nodes. Its how you qualify for a wizard NFT.
They can try anything but nothing will succeed, ultimately they are just out to scam to lowly IQs
They've been cultivating relationships with mining pools. If they convince a supermajority of hash power to run their patch (unfortunately not very many entities), how will they be stopped?
just as the segwit 2x attackers were also stopped
The segwit2x attackers were stopped by the community not explicitly running segwit2x nodes, but remaining on the status quo Bitcoin Core nodes. How would that help in the case where attackers are enabling a soft fork that is invisible to status quo Bitcoin Core nodes?
Miners only have the task of organising the blocks. If miners use software that violates the rules of the network, a fork is created. Miners cannot run any other software otherwise they are no longer part of Bitcoin.
Also, there are miners who will not follow this and make a lot of money from it.
A softfork does not violate the rules of the network though, that is the difference between a soft fork and hard fork. Miners are free to choose what software to run the same as any other network participant. If a minority of hash power doesn't follow it, the majority chain will always overtake the minority fork. So any miners that don't follow it will lose a lot of money.
I see your point.
If it were the case that miners can activate soft forks from which they mainly benefit but are against the majority of the other players in the network, why haven't miners been doing this for a long time?
They can fork off at any time.
Why haven't they done so already?
Why are they bragging about the ability to do so ?
Mainly because they know they can't, it would be disastrous for them to be excluded.
All they are trying to do is to incite some sort of compromise by showing their strength even if their strenght is insufficient to hold them on their own.
this is the best sign that this patch will not be integrated - fortunately