[Question] Are democratic elections incompetence-as-a-service?

Basically the view that:

• People are grossly underqualified at identifying what makes a leader good versus great in a capabilities sense—who is more effective at reaching goals. They can at best weakly identify bad leaders

• People are may also be underqualified at identifying at what leader’s goals are good or bad in a moral sense, but theyre lot more effective at identifying this than identifying competence

• You end up with incompetent elected leaders

• Real power is concentrated in bureaucratic structures that are somewhat meritocratic and somewhat competent by virtue of their meritocratic selection

• All this is a good thing because:

• it prevents the more meritocratic branches of government from descending into their own autocracy—the elected leader acts as a scapegoat in the public limelight and can override or atleast challenge any strongly autocratic decisions attempted by the meritocracy.

• It still gives a lot of power to the meritocratic branches to govern well if they want to. Averaging everything out, meritocratic structures select for more competent people, so this is good.

• Electing incompetent leaders ensures the leaders themselves won’t be competent at building their own autocratic power if they want to.

Can I find any reading material on such views?