His policies were based on direct personal experience in how to negotiate, how to build up a successful business largely by his own hands.

These life experiences are priceless for governing.

I think the founding fathers did not intend for anyone to have a careee in Washington DC but that such political office should only be a small supplement to a main career.

With this philosophy, a DC politician would enter with decades of professional experience in business, which would make for far better government.