No, just the opposite: we fire (i.e. not re-elect) people with power for being assholes whenever we can, even if they’re perefect at their jobs otherwise and their attitude isn’t actually hurting anybody (including the people they are asshholes toward—usually those people got to where they were in life, proposing horrible ideas like they do over and over and over again, by being completely immune and oblivious to criticism.)
Hypothesis: governments and other such bodies could be a lot better-run if we just had to choose the least charismatic/diplomatic qualified person possible, because then that lack of charisma would prevent them from swaying us with anything besides facts; and then, later, nothing they could do could make anyone like them any less than they already do, so they wouldn’t have to worry about maintaining their image getting in the way of doing their job.
