The top-tier candidate should be identified and should run. Since the 16th or 17th amendment was passed we end up with a lot of cowards that don’t want to work without victory insured. We end up with a celebrity with no experience(if we’re lucky). It’s worked at times.
That’s what we are supposed to have. Citizens who give up a few years of their lives and then go home. We were never supposed to have a professional ruling class.