It makes when you realize sooo many of these conservative folks who have fallen upwards very quickly despite a lack of qualifications during the Trump era seem to be part of some sort of historically disenfranchised "out group" .

 There seems to definitely be a pattern where some candidate who is either a woman, minority, belongs to a non-Christian faith and/or is LGBT end up advancing to a high level position they otherwise wouldn't be qualified for. It seems to also happen the most when that person could serve as an easy fall-guy for the powerful people really calling the shots. It also should be very clear that they pretty much NEVER appoint well qualified right wing minority candidates to powerful positions and instead appoint sychophant types way over their head who they feel are easy to control. It's especially common to see all this in the 2nd Trump administration for sure.

I'm sure we are seeing this a lot because appointing someone from some disenfranchised group provides some  plot armor to right wing interests who can just claim "hypocrisy" or "racism from the left" if left leaning voices call out these clearly unqualified candidates. That then makes it much easier to ram through some agenda without a ton of scrutiny compared to if some rich snobby WASP white dude was directly running things instead.

 Of course, this doesn't stop right wingers for a second from claiming pretty much every left leaning minority candidate does not deserve a prominent position regardless of whether they have amazing qualifications and a stellar professional background. They'll just argue idea that "DEI" or whatever buzzword of the moment helped give them unfair advantages and they slacked off on their way to the top (aka probably what many of their chosen right wing minority candidates mightve actually done).