This is, in fact, the underlying pretension of pretty much all Aaron Sorkin political dramas.
To be fair, there are a lot of very intelligent people who gravitate to government. But at the same time, they're people who have grown up in a political and socioeconomic bubble, and know very little about the real world outside. And thus, through arrogance and ignorance, and a hefty dollop of political tribalism, they make mistakes. Big mistakes.
In the immortal word of our colleague
@Oceander . . .bingo!
(The bubble you describe also isolates those people from core principle and Constitutional foundation. It was the marriage of core
principle and the actual world that underwrote the Constitution, and it is the isolation that does so much, too much, to invite
what Mr. Healy has called the cult of the presidency, the superstitions and hazards of executive supremacism, to seduce them.)