The very people tasked with enforcing the rule of law are abusing their powers, protecting their friends, weakening the very principles that make our country work.

负责执行法治的人正在滥用他们的权力，保护他们的朋友， 削弱使我们国家运转的原则。

So there is a seed there of what your guest described about people being assigned tasks according to whether they can do it rather than whether they have the title that says they should do it.

因此，您的客人所描述的关于人们根据他们是否可以做而不是他们是否拥有应该做的头衔来分配任务的种子。