As a conservative my preferred strategy for ensuring the wrong people don’t get power over the right people, is to minimize the degree to which any person has power over any other person.
I guess if you’re certain who the right and wrong people are, you can encourage asymmetric power structures with the right people on top.
But part of my political philosophy is the recognition that (a) it’s gross to separate the world into the right and the wrong people to have power, and (b) I have biases and limited point of view and wouldn’t even know who the right and wrong people are.
We fear big government because we worry that the wrong people will end up running it.