Democrats rejoice. Crack open the champagne, pat yourselves on the back, and welcome Conor Lamb, the apparent winner of the latest special election, to Washington with open arms.

But then sober up, for you may not see his likes again. Democrats say there are many Conor Lambs out there. Honk if you’re a Democrat who’s served in the military, holds a respectable job and has an all-American family who’s not been recruited to run.

It’s just that not every candidate with the right resume is a best-in-show candidate as Lamb was, a prosecutor who put drug dealers in jail in a place where opioids are killing family and neighbors, and didn’t talk like an Ivy Leaguer. Most candidates can’t pull off being Mr. Potato Head, loose parts plugged in to make him look palatable to a divergent electorate: a Democrat against abortion, at home firing an AR-15 when 17 children were just slain at school in Parkland, and comfortable throwing shade on his party’s leader Nancy Pelosi in the midst of resurgent women’s movement led by #MeToo.