Someone with competence and charisma is a dangerous, uncontrollable beast... Major parties would NEVER take the risk.
My favourite quote is by Herbert Hoover, a man struggling, and failing, to control the great depression and its effects... an OLD SCHOOL Republican, not the mess that party has become now.
Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.