Do we really want "efficient and effective government"?

"This [claim] blanks out the most important question about government: the question of what it should be doing in the first place! "Should the government should censor speech, or ban abortions, or eliminate carbon emissions, or the movement of goods and people on which our prosperity depends? These are not questions of efficiency or effectiveness. And indeed when a government is doing things that are destructive, it is better that it does them ineffectively. ...
    "There’s no such thing as doing a bad thing well; there’s just doing it more or less effectively, and when the goal is bad, it’s better that one be ineffective at bringing it about. ...
    "The context of present politics is that much of what both parties want to accomplish is wrong and destructive. And in such a context it’s foolish and immoral to think about who will be more efficient or effective in a way that’s agnostic about their ends."

~ Greg Salmieri, in answer to Lex Friedman