This reminds me of an old history book about how the Nazis took over Germany, and one section was about how they hired people. I’m going to quote it verbatim

“Conservatives, socialists and moderates had been ousted from virtually every organization and replaced by Nazi sympathisers. There had been a continuous clamor for ‘jobs for the boys’, and most of these party workers who were remotely worthy, and many who were quite unworthy, had been awarded posts. Germany was now largely controlled by social misfits, incompetents, cranks and sadists - and because most of these administrators could not in fact administer without guidance and control, the true power lay more and more than ever before with the central government.”