Unpopular opinion, but the US really needs to pay their executive leadership more. 

The reason you get the B team like Newsom and Bass and ineffective “community organizers” is the huge opportunity cost of high quality human capital having to forego private sector salaries. 

This is why you only see truly effective executives enter politics after they’re post economic (Romney, Bloomberg).

Wouldn’t it be better for the young version of those folks to stock the halls of city halls and the capitols?