They need people in power that look silly and incompetent to carry out the worst parts of the agenda. If they appeared competent while carrying out the agenda, people would actually put a stop to it.
This gives them a disposable leader that can absorb blowback for the worst actions without it being attributed to "the team". Gives flexibility in replacing them later while retaining core voters / public sheep opinion.
When they have an operation so broad they do need fail safes so they can still march along with their plans.
So I agree there are a lot of lemmings put out there to absorb whatever push back comes back against any overreach of theirs.