The wealthy have to stay out of government.
No, I’m serious. Today’s wealthy are for the most part so out of touch with how 99% of the country live, or, indeed with most states of reality, that they scatter dysfunction like pollen.
The nicest way to describe Jared Kushner would be to call him a wet-behind-the-ears doufus, suffering from toxic entitlement and nepotism dependence, skilled only at palace intrigue.
Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair gives some of the more recent examples.