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Never let a business person near a functioning business. Never, ever let a business person be in charge of government.
In my professional experience it's most specifically people with a sales and sales-like background (which includes grifters).
People whose speciality is "wheeling and dealing" are horrible at managing anything whose success criteria is not purely based on convincing other people of something, so basically anything were actual things must be created, made, distributed and so on.
Since they can't actually make things work, they instead try and manipulate perception around it to convince others that things are working or for them to do it for them, and the former only holds for a while whilst problems accumulate and things eventually fail in an too-big-to-be deniable way (at which point they try to dump the blame on somebody else), whilst the latter when done by somebody supposedly leading something just yields a parasite manager that doesn't manage and whose selection of manpower is based on how easy it is to manipulate their "underlings" rather than competence, so things get badly done but said "manager" can't actually tell until it's too late.
A lot of the cultural issues in the modern US can be traced back to Pat Robertson.
A lot of the economical issues in the modern US business can be traced back to Jack Welch.
Fuck that asshole.
I've definitely seen this to be true on the local level for years. So much potential for conflict of interest if nothing else. And yeah I think it applies even more to national government.