I get that part about Sidious being behind both sides of the conflict so he could declare himself absolute ruler. Why did Jar Jar give him emergency powers again? Also, Padme was maneuvered into making him Chancellor in the first place. When Bail Antilles probably would have won the election. Since Palpatine is the one who stirred up lies that Valorum was corrupt, but you can’t argue that he wasn’t ineffective as a chancellor. He was a friend to the JEDI, I guess that made it doubly useful to ruin him.
Well, that’s what I’m saying, the Prequel scripts have very little “connective tissue”. They convey the bare facts relevant to the plot and that’s it. For example, in Phantom Menace, Palpatine uses his alter-ego to manipulate the Trade Federation into invading a planet, causing the Senate to lose faith in the current Chancellor and replace him with Palpatine. Those are the bare facts, but the connective tissue just isn’t there.
Like for example, I have no clue why the Trade Federation even agreed to invade Naboo. We can assume their goal is to get lower taxes, but there’s no connective tissue in the script that explains why they believe invading Naboo will result in lower taxes. So we have to mentally stitch the script together and assume some elaborate backstory between Sidious and the Nemoidians that explains why they even listen to him and why they believe he can get them lower taxes and why they believe that blockading and then invading some random planet will lead to lower taxes eventually. Lucas just didn’t do the work to thread these plot elements together in a clear, coherent narrative.