It seems the government--bureaucratic and elected--is out of control. The right hand isn't communicating with left.
Case in point, Pelosi's visit to Taiwan last week and the FBI raid on Mar-A-Lago.
Pelosi might have inadvertently triggered China's invasion of Taiwan and the FBI might have just as inadvertently re-elected Trump.
These are not the actions of a thoughtful, well-coordinated management system/group.
Good points.
As part of my career I did work in .gov and did attend some fairly high level meetings—where I was often the only true subject matter expert. That meant I was the lowest ranking person in the room.
It was incredibly difficult to get political appointees to understand even the most basic facts and then to try to drag them to decisions that were even in the general range of reasonable.
They seemed primarily motivated by pleasing big party patrons and being able to spin whatever they did so it sounded good—even if was ridiculous policy.
As you correctly point out, they often failed—or even refused!—to contact others in the bureaucracy who might be affected by their decisions.