Amen to that.
And it’s a kind of progress towards the good that a lot of folks who complain about “lesser evils” miss. Get the best you can, promote the best you can through them, and then watch better candidates arise for the next iteration. America hasn’t seen that, at least lately, because it has (to mix metaphors) been like the proverbial herd of cats before God. We all have some evil in us, and continue to subsist only by the virtue of the grace of God, something that we never earned or generated.