The ability to make reasonable decisions in a calm and sober manner based solely on the evidence presented is an incredible and underrated quality. It entails sublimating the emotional and often crowd-pleasing sentiments to the rational and objective ones, and making a decision based on the latter.
The ability for a politician to make decisions or craft policy according to neutral facts and evidence present rather than party affiliation, targeted influence or re-election bias has become so rare, it might very well be considered a superpower. The topic of prostitution, for instance, has been a hallmark of poor decision making on legislation by law and policymakers, based solely on outdated policies and a medieval approach to the pay for play issue.
