> The irony of these two guys starting off their piece about how they plan to reshape the government with this

Did you read the next sentence or did you accidentally omit it from your excerpt? It says: "That isn’t how America functions today."

Then, "Thankfully, we have a historic opportunity to solve the problem."

To everyone voting it was clear, that Elon would get this role. So he was part of the elected package. Probably, that was also a deciding factor for many voters.