The true leaders in America refuse to go into politics. Who wants to have their every move criminalized, their backgrounds investigated ad nauseum, the bones drug out of their closets, and their families maligned?
The politics of personal destruction weed out people who would do a great job and just give us self serving political pretty boys and girls who dont care a whiff about anyone but themselves
Thats why we have had to endure so-so political leaders for decades ( with the exception of Reagan)