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[Order David Horowitz’s new book, America Betrayed, HERE.]
The Good News
The good news for the Trump campaign is that the sure Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is a lifelong California hard leftist at a time when the state is emblematic of progressive nihilism. Her extremist advocacies as a San Francisco county and city attorney, state Attorney General, and senator are on record. And they are consistent with what has virtually destroyed the state.
Harris was also a driving force as vice president for Joe Biden’s unpopular and unworkable progressive policies—whether open borders, massive illegal immigration, hyperinflation, fanning woke divisiveness, arguing for lax criminal prosecution, or defunding the police. She was far closer to the mindset of the unhinged Squad than Joe Biden himself.
None of the Biden-Harris administration’s main policy initiatives ever polled 50 percent approval. Abroad, the world blew up under their tenure with an unbridled Putin invading Ukraine, an unbound Iran brazenly using its proxies to attack Israel, and China all but warning the West of its impending absorption of Taiwan—now not a question of if but only when.
So, it should be easy for Trump to win the key midwestern swing states. All he needs to do is repeatedly remind voters that Harris is the most far-left presidential candidate in modern history. He can drive home that she is not only on record endorsing these extreme positions but has been doing so emphatically for years to energize her exclusively left-wing constituents and audiences.
If Trump heeds the lessons of late Lee Atwater, then he need only follow the 1988 Republican campaign script, when hard-left Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis’s 17-point lead in late July melted through nonstop reminders that Dukakis was and always would be far to the left of the American voter.
Dukakis’s efforts to claim that the election was only about his “competence,” not his liberal ideology, evaporated after a devastating series of ads—exposing the “technocrat” Dukakis as an extremist and a hypocrite desperate to disown and hide his prior unapologetically left-wing record from the voters. And Dukakis was a far better candidate than Harris.
The Bad News
However, the bad news for Trump is that there are only roughly 90 days left to expose Harris’s extremist record. And like cognitively challenged Joe Biden in 2020, her handlers will not allow her to speak extemporaneously or to give interviews to real journalists.
She will hide her innate silliness and her extreme record and instead teleprompt a scripted persona and pseudo-centrist agenda to the nation.
There is, then, almost no time to redefine the reclusive Harris, given she was never a candidate for 2024 nomination. She stuck by the hard lie that Joe Biden was “fit as a fiddle” until he wasn’t and was selected by party bosses and billionaires at a historically late stage of the campaign. That was not a drawback given her hard-left vulnerabilities, but an advantage given that it was always much easier to hide the real Harris in three months than for over two years.
In addition, she will vastly outspend the Trump campaign—given that her youth, gender, and race contrast positively with the admittedly enfeebled octogenarian Biden and his increasing snark, crankiness, and off-putting incoherence.
And finally, she is a tempting personal target that naturally irks Trump. So, he has risen to the bait to respond in kind to the sort of personal vitriol that has long been directed at him and now running mate J.D. Vance. When politicos, like the governor of Illinois, stoop to lie that Vance had sexual intercourse with a couch, then there are now no limits on anything.
Harris is certainly a “DEI” candidate. In the hysteria following the death of George Floyd and the months-long riots of 2020, Joe Biden pandered to his hard-left base that had orchestrated his nomination by forcing the withdrawal of his non-electable primary rivals by promising that he would select a black vice president who would likely be a woman.
Those racial and gender fixations explained why Biden selected Harris, who otherwise had a dismal and brief senate career. As a candidate herself, she had failed to win a single primary or a single delegate and withdrew in humiliation from the 2019-20 race without even entering a primary or caucus.
During the violent days of the summer of 2020’s rioting, arson, and looting, Harris virtue signaled her eagerness to get on the presidential ticket in ways that would have proved impossible on her own merits, apparently by pandering to the hard-left BLM/Antifa base.
So, she loudly helped to raise money to bail out Minnesota rioters and looters. She bragged on CBS that protests (that had long proved violent and had led to deaths and hundreds of injured law enforcement officers) would and should not cease. And thus, we, the American people, she boasted, should “beware” that the unrest would continue up to and beyond Election Day. That warning is about as provocatively left-wing as it gets in American politics and was far more reckless than anything Trump said on January 6. Yet apparently her radical incitement either helped, or was excused, in her appointment as Biden’s running mate.
Moreover, Harris has indeed played the race card, sometimes presenting herself as the “first” California Indian-American senator, sometimes altering her accent to a black patois to emphasize her supposedly authentic black credentials—as the child of an immigrant, Jamaican, and Stanford professor father.
There are other tempting but dead-end Trump targets.
Given that his lead over Biden had been growing weekly and given the president’s exponential rate of cognitive decline, it was natural to keep harping on Biden as the “worst” president in U.S. history. As Trump put it, the entire Biden tenure really was a “disaster”—and thus, logically and by extension, so was Harris’s role in that calamity of an administration.
So, all these ad hominem, name-calling targets are naturally attractive. But in the few weeks left (early voting in some states is scheduled to begin in mere days), they remain dead-ends, distractions, and time-wasters.
Proving Harris is a DEI selection, a woke opportunist, a hypocrite, an utter incompetent, childlike, and indistinguishable from Joe Biden won’t win Trump a single additional MAGA vote in the swing states or one new Trump-hating Democrat.
But these ad hominem distractions will bore or even bother independent voters as they hear endless media-ginned-up controversies and psychodramas that Trump is “cruel,” “mean,” and “racist.” At best, Trump will achieve a draw with the Trump-hating media and, at worst, sacrifice precious time and opportunities better spent warning Americans of the Harris record.
Trump, again, must force Harris to come clean by either reemphasizing her lifelong extreme positions or be exposed as a flip-flopping opportunist, scrambling to reinvent herself in the fashion of a losing George McGovern, Mike Dukakis, or Jimmy Carter.
Getting tangled up in Harris’s woke and racial contortions, her opportunistically amorous past, and her bouts of cacklerhea will only suggest that Trump is desperate and playing into the hands of the woke victimization narratives.
Trump must instead hammer away that Biden-Harris has left us with a $1.2 trillion yearly interest bill on the debt, higher interest rates, 10 million unaudited illegal and often dangerous aliens, a nonexistent border, and prices on staples essential to life—key foods, fuels, power, housing, insurance, and health care—20 to 30 percent higher than when Biden took office.
He should ask Harris, “You own these policies, so why are you suddenly ashamed rather than proud of what you did?” Harris bragged that she was “proud” to have been the last person in the room with Biden on the decision to flee in disgrace from Afghanistan.
So, Trump should ask, “Then why did both of you abandon to the Taliban terrorists over 70,000 American trucks, armored vehicles, and Humvees, as well over a half-million heavy machine guns, automatic pistols, and assault weapons, along with over 100 planes and helicopters and nearly 200,000 assorted night-vision goggles, sophisticated radios, and artillery pieces?”
In our dangerous world, with an explosive Middle East, a belligerent Russia, and an oil-thirsty China, the best way to protect American energy interests and independence is not to ban fracking and horizontal drilling, stop the development of natural gas production, or mandate electric vehicles and implement the Green New Deal.
Once upon a time, the Republicans revealed to the country just how far left a nice enough George McGovern was, just how out of touch and hard leftist gentleman Mike Dukakis was, and just how unstable and unsustainable the world was that an upright Jimmy Carter had left America. Landslide rejections of those leftist agendas followed.
So, show all the clips of a word salad Harris struggling to achieve minimum coherence—but always in the context of her espousal of agendas that no one today wants.
Let the left talk of her “diversity” and being “the first female and black vice president” and the pathbreaking “black and Indian nominee” until the American people are weary of cheap woke pandering.
And let Trump simply answer, “She is the diversity candidate; I am the unity candidate. I want to help all Americans recover from the recent nightmare by offering them policies that improve their livelihoods, their freedoms, their security, and their unity with one another.”
A final note. As long as Joe Biden selfishly deceived the American people about his mental decline, as long as the president barked and snarked out his divisive Phantom-of-the-Opera, semi-fascist, and anti-MAGA speeches, as long as he demagogued to win a midterm or reelection by draining the strategic petroleum reserve, cancelling student debt, or offering amnesties, the more the people were sick of him and wanted him out.
But Biden now?
Our president is an isolated, crushed figure. He was cruelly ambushed by the very forces that had fixed his nomination in 2020 by forcing out his rivals and employing him as a ceremonial veneer for their otherwise unpalatable hard-left agendas. So just as Joe lived by the 2020 coup, so his career perished by the 2024 sequel.
Thus, Trump need not constantly pound a now impotent and increasingly irrelevant Biden with the self-evident and obvious: that he was a “horrible “president” and a “disaster.”
America knows that. It is relieved that Biden has only six months left to endanger us.
But given Biden’s diminished capacity, his visible frailty, and his seclusion, how does Trump beat Harris by beating a proverbial dead horse?
For the first time in his life, the now-neutered Biden may even gain public sympathy for his feebleness—especially as the Orwellian left narrative factory churns out new pretexts that a “courageous” Joe Biden “voluntarily” stepped down “for the good of the country” and is now a “George Washington figure.”
A Way Forward?
Again, focus on the disastrous Biden governance of the last four years. Make Harris own it. And contrast it with 2017-21 and what will follow in 2025.
But cease with the invective that he was demented, his already old debate as the worst in history, and his tenure an utter disaster.
Trump is no longer running against a has-been caretaker, whose implosion appeals to the innate sympathy of the swing voter (but not to the extent of wanting another four years of him).
Finally, in the next debate(s), Trump must not only use characteristic broad adjectives for Biden and Harris, such as “disaster,” “terrible,” or “horrible,” but simply pepper Harris with what Biden actually did and her role in it. Don’t describe Harris as a disaster, but communicate in exactly what way and precisely how in her own words. And there are 30 years of her extreme advocacies to make that case.
Do all that, and Trump will win decisively in the fashion that Republicans did in 1972, 1980, and 1988 by avoiding the personal and simply demonstrating why McGovern, Carter, and Dukakis were not what they professed to be but entirely at odds with the majority of Americans.
The left wants Trump to spend the next three months harping on Biden’s dementia, the farce of its coverup, the Democrat coup to remove him, and the off-putting record of Kamala Harris.
Yet if Trump falls for all that, he will allow the hardest-left candidate in American history to do to the United States what she and her fellow leftists did to California.
President Trump isn’t going to win,
The Democrats are sure to steal the election one way or another.
It probably won’t help that between the choices of Harris, Trump, Kennedy, et al, THX is going to inevitably vote for “Objectivism” as a write-in.
Nobody needs your cynicism. Or perhaps you are a troll. Either way, go away.
Yeah they (the trolls and gloomy guses) love to speak as if they KNOW the future….and it is always dire. Who needs it?
I share your fears concerning the Demoncrats stealing the election. But it’s not a CERTAINTY.
The Demons are aware this time that there is a genuine, grassroots risk of sparking a Civil War. Are they really so far gone that they’re prepared to mass-murder thousands, perhaps millions, of American citizens?
Ansd too, the Demons must surely have thought of all the ways they can EXPLOIT a Trump Presidency. First by setting the stage, as they have already done, for a series of major terrorism incidents involving “migrants”–all of which the media can either blame on Trump, or at least make Trump’s reactions to said incidents appear fascist and dictatorial.
Even without that, they can exploit Trump’s promises to deport millions of “migrants” by finding “Americans” from Somalia, Mexico, etc who either get mistakenly deported or “endlessly harassed” by ICE officials. The race wars fantasized by Charles Manson are always the DNC’s wet dream. They’ll push to make it happen during Trump’s term.
Really, there’s no end to ways the mockingbird media and the Demoncrats can team up together during a second Trump term to ensure they can easily steal the 2028 election (and perhaps beyond) without any real pushback.
I’m always saddened to see how much influence the media has on my fellow ‘Muricans, Even “based” people sometimes parrot its false claims.
My guess is the Demons atm WANT to steal the upcoming election. They believe they CAN, and are at least laying the groundwork for it.
Buuut key figures may get cold feet later and start pushing the “Nooo, let’s pass on it. Too risky. We can sabotage Trump’s term easily, steal the 2026 mid-terms to erase any GOP gains in congress, and go from there.”
Who knows:?
They WANT to steal it… but WILL they? When the risks are sooo extreme this time…
All good points, thank you.
“Are they really so far gone that they’re prepared to mass-murder thousands, perhaps millions, of American citizens?”
I believe so.
Our only hope is that the military will mount a coup against the denizens of DC instead, even though DC has already neutered it’s leadership with DEI.
No, today’s military will not mount a Coup, however if it really came down to a Civil War between the Commie Left and MAGA our Veterans and Warriors won’t be fighting for Red Diaper Baby Kamala or Tampon Tim, I can guarantee you that!!
“Are they really so far gone that they’re prepared to mass-murder thousands, perhaps millions, of American citizens?”
Yes, if they oppose the Leftist agendas.
They would love open rebellion, as they control all the organized forces of power, from Law Enforcement to the Military to the IC.
You really underestimate just how horrid these people are. Think Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot.
I prefer to think of the American Revolutionaries who defeated the greatest military force in the World at that time, the Kingdom of Great Britain. Fortunately, America had the greatest military leader of all time, George Washington ! Bravery is contagious. Never doubt it….
Good comment. But your question at the beginning, citing the possibility of a hard civil war and asking, “Are they really so far gone that they’re prepared to mass-murder thousands, perhaps millions, of American citizens?” might have “Yes” for an answer. One can sincerely hope not.
Since you seem to know I would bet you are in on the steal. Maybe the cops should keep an eye on you, Mr. Demoralizer
Nothing at all has changed regarding ensuring vote integrity so I absolutely am sure it will be more rigged than before. Vote we must but be prepared for the inevitable.
No one ever votes out Communism.
Recently just before Biden dropped out, a National Security Council member brazenly stated the bipartisan Draft Reinstatement Act was awaiting Biden’s signature in February,2025.
In addition, the Sec. of Defense stated the military will not allow interference of drop box access during the election process, protecting ballot stuffing as last election.
The are not even hiding the intent of theft.
Maybe not! Let’s not count our boobies until they’re hatched!
The Democrats will be able to steal the election only if the election is close. If Trump wins in a landslide, then he wins. I believe this may be what VDH is implying.
One way to help the Soviet Democrats win 2024 is to repeatedly natter “Why bother voting when you already know that the Soviet Democrats are going to steal the election.”
A lot of people couldn’t figure out reality before the two Georgia Senate special elections were won by two hard Marxist Soviet Democrats, while they sat at home refusing to vote, assured that there was no point to taking a few minutes to vote when the election would be stolen.
Those same people haven’t learned the lesson of the last three years of Soviet Democrat control of the Senate thanks to those two surrendered sets in the Senate.
They still haven’t figured out reality.
My God…. how shallow and insignificant a person’s life must to be, when they just can’t find a way to sacrifice a few minutes of their time to vote, while having no shortage of time to complain online.
The very definition of a loser, on display right here. If you believe you’re going to lose, you’re right.
I sincerely hope that you are wrong but fear that you are right. We’ll know more in five months.
“…..key foods, fuels, power, housing, insurance, and health care—20 to 30 percent higher than when Biden took office…….”
What grocery stores and gas stations do you shop at? I want to go there because all the ones I cater to charge double to quintuple what they used to. You must live in Fantasyland. Enjoy the Happiest Place On Earth while the rest of us live in the real world.
And Kamelho Ain’t black, as you noted. KAMALA DEVI Harris. She looks like the dot com dot head Indian she is, she eats Indian food and shits Indian shit. SHE AIN’T BLACK.
And she’s ugly and has a turkey neck. She’s the same age I am but looks like shit, while I’m so handsome a mirror can’t handle my beauty.
Hey, if you built a political career by boinking Willie Brown, you’d look like shit too.
Thanks for writing, Victor Davis. I am a lifelong Democrat whose party left me years ago. I agree with you and am tiring ofTrump’s “ad hominem distractions” – if only he would listen to you. GOD BLESS.
Yeah, he’s a good guy.
Yes, ad hominem attacks don’t convince. Attack her policies–that is what is needed.
Your job now is to talk about this everywhere you can. This country is sitting on the apex. Help your local R party to win this thing. Help your precinct committeeman your neighborhood. If yours don’t have one, be one anyway and do what they would do. Pray that people will come to their senses when they vote just like the very first time Trump ran as an outsider. Look at the UK. Marxist dictators elected all over but also some have taken the right track and voted in some decent people. But it is a mess there with their immigration failures and those same people taking over neighborhoods and getting elected to Parliament. Historically, as the UK goes, the US goes.
The Trump bell can’t be un-rung. The Deep State ruling class is illegitimate. We all know it. “Defeating” Trump can’t stop the inevitable realignment of political forces in America. Capisce? For those of you in Rio Linda, here’s the point in a nutshell: Democ-rats, KMA.
Hanson is saying: “She’s following The Schultz Plan: “I see nothing! I hear nothing! I know nothing!” (My favorite character. As a screenwriter, I wrote the final episode resolving Stalag 13 and a master plan leading to an escape and to the end of the war. I also resolved Columbo, his wife, the dog, and that car.)
Obama did the same so Joe followed it. HOW CAN YOU ATTACK NOTHING?
☭AMALA was in a business location with people around, but I noticed she was reading from two teleprompters. She’d look straight ahead, then to the left, read, speak, then to the right. WTF was that? She can’t afford anymore Word Salads so now acting like Sgt. Schultz! (Let’s remember that Sgt. Schultz was a traitor to his country!)
If Trump wants to win this election, he needs to force Harris to answer these three questions.
1. Do you believe America is systemically racist?
2.. Do you believe the only way any American can prove they are not a racist is to vote for you?
3. Do you believe any American who does not vote for you is a racist?
Trump should ask Harris these questions or demand that the Press ask her these questions.
Great article Mr. Hanson!
With all the military equipment, small arms, artillery and ammunitions left in Afghanistan, Harris and Biden were seemingly trying to become the largest arms suppliers to terrorists on the planet. And they didn’t even get paid (did they?).
Breaking news! America has been the leading arms supplier to the world for as long as I can remember. The military/industrial complex Eisenhower warned us of has been making a lot of people rich and will continue to do so. Most of our foreign policy is designed to keep the money flowing and the campaign coffers full. Trump slowed down the cash flow and they can’t have that.
I remember all the voices howling “military/industrial complex” after years of Clinton ignoring both the military and bin Laden terrorism resulted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. All you could see online were people reciting their concerns about “military/industrial complex”. And complaining about all the Americans who paid their mortgages and fed their kids because they had a stable job working in the industrial side of the “complex”.
I wonder how many people who natter “military/industrial complex” have actually read that entire speech given by Eisenhower, especially the other things he voiced concerns about that are never quoted online.
The ChiComs certainly don’t voice any concerns about “military/industrial complex” as they race towards catching and passing us as a military power, starting with their navy and missile technology.
When Trump and Vance are repeatedly smeared as racists, etc. they have to respond aggressively. The old GOPe strategy of ignoring or apologizing and trying to change topics doesn’t work; it is a surrender. I agree that they must hammer on how far left, evil, and crazy Harris/Walz are, but some of this will necessarily be responses to their identity politics.
Ultimately, the problem rests with the GOP. Trump is a fighter, they are not. David Horowitz had the same problem trying to get Republicans to fight back against the Dems back in the nineties. The Pubs’ squeamish unwillingness to fight fire with fire gave us two losers; McCain and Romney, plus eight years of Obama. The all important question must be: Will the GOP finally see the light, or will they quietly acquiesce to a deep state tyranny?
“What are the “conservatives”? What is it that they are seeking to “conserve”?
It is generally understood that those who support the “conservatives,” expect them to uphold the system which has been camouflaged by the loose term of “the American way of life.” The moral treason of the “conservative” leaders lies in the fact that they are hiding behind that camouflage: they do not have the courage to admit that the American way of life was capitalism, that that was the politico-economic system born and established in the United States, the system which, in one brief century, achieved a level of freedom, of progress, of prosperity, of human happiness, unmatched in all the other systems and centuries combined—and that that is the system which they are now allowing to perish by silent default.
If the “conservatives” do not stand for capitalism, they stand for and are nothing; they have no goal, no direction, no political principles, no social ideals, no intellectual values, no leadership to offer anyone.
Yet capitalism is what the “conservatives” dare not advocate or defend. They are paralyzed by the profound conflict between capitalism and the moral code which dominates our culture: the morality of altruism . . . Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.” – Ayn Rand, “Conservatism: An Obituary”
Hogan’s Heroes – one of my favorite shows way back when. I laughed out loud when I watched it. I’m going to search on my Hulu and Netflix and Prime to see if they show the episodes. Need a good laugh these days!
I don’t know what I’ll do if KH gets elected. 4 years of that cackle??? and she won’t have to hide it once she gets elected..
USA – God please give us Trump back
Pray for a Trump win, but vote for it too. If you are able to, contribute to his campaign. Remember that during his last run for the presidency, he received a great many contributions of $5. They add up.
As Dennis Prager has advise, someone needs to get through to the Trump team that they need to run against the entire Democratic Party and its policies and stop attacking Harris and Walz personally.
Trump needs his up his game. Big time. But I don’t think he’s capable of it (see: grandiose narcissist).
We need voters who are not MAGA in order to win. His ranting and complaining and throwing out distracting issues (dissing Kemp in GA, as an example) is undermining his candidacy. He needs to tout the laundry list of accomplishments under his administration and spell out this plan for a path forward. Even when journalists who are reasonably sympathetic to him (Bartiromo, Faulkner, etc) throw him a life preserver, he fails to grab it and run with it. It’s becoming a predicatable weakness and with a race this close, the power of the left’s machine, voter fraud, and an increasingly dumbed down public (don’t tell me how smart Americans are because, on balance, I don’t see it), we are a breath away from losing this country now and for the foreseeable future (think tens of millions of illegals who become Dem voters, changes to the SC, etc).
Best assessment I’ve seen in a long time. Thank you, Sarah. Trump’s personality flaws are his biggest enemy. And as for he voting public, these are the people Franklin was talking about when he said: “if you can keep it”. His lamentation is now a reality.
Totally agree with you! Great comment and insight by Sarah.
Sarah!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Great comment, great insight!
I hope to see more comments from you.
There is more to an campaign than a slick slogan. MAGA, OK,, what does that mean.
His first campaign, masterminded by Bannon and Gorka, pushed for manufacturing to return to the US as MAGA. Bannon and Gorka assembled a manufacturing consulting dream team, including Elon Musk, to begin the process immediately.
What did Trump his first three months after inauguration? At McConnell’s insistence he fired both Bannon/Gorka and with them went the consultants. Manufacturing was dead on arrival. Instead we got tariffs on Chinese imports skyrocketing prices at the stores (Trump was warned you don’t levy tariffs unless you have a manufacturing base to fall back to, we don’t) and the tariffs were a huge windfall for taxes for the government.
I could list other big fails but you can easily find them.
So now what does Trump plan as MAGA? A repeat of last time? Pandemic/lockdown/Fauci 2.0?
Trump is the way better alternate but by how much?
Are Americans intelligent? Some are, some are not. We’re all over the bell curve, with half of us above average and half below. Just like every other group of people. What Americans are, if they are under a certain age, is uneducated, regardless of their university credentials.
What VDH and the rest of pundit class are missing. is reality. And that is,, Trump win or lose America is doomed. First of all Marxist commieKKKrats will do anything to steal the elections of 2024. Even if they fail they are are not going to accept Trump victory at any price.. Just Google Rep Raskin plan. For some miracle Republicans win the house and the senate alongside Trump, . Marxist commieKKKrats will unleash their terror armies of ANTIFA and BLM. Buckle up is going to be a bumpy ride
Mr. Hanson fails to note the obvious: the reason Harris can win is because Trump is Trump — and no criticism of Harris is likely to stick when her opponent is an anti-constitutional narcissist and complete airhead as a thinker and governing official. The “Republican” party (it really does not exist anymore) could have had smart, tough options like Haley, Rubio or DeSantis. Instead, it placed its bets on a man unhinged who is governed only by his own ego and impulses. Look in the mirror brother Hanson. in your heart, you know he’s a nut.
Dear Dr. Hanson: from your keyboard to Trump’s eyes!
Quibbles: … why did both of you abandon to the Taliban … half-million heavy machine guns, automatic pistols, and assault weapons …
I think you meant semiautomatic pistols. AFAIK our military doesn’t use many (if any) machine pistols. Nor does it call any of its arms “assault weapons,” but I think you were (clumsily) trying to make a point. It would be better to not use the Left’s language; no conservatives or gun buffs to my knowledge call AR-15 type rifles (including full-auto ones) “assault weapons.”
One sincerely hopes that Mr. Trump reads this column during one of his long (sleepless) days. He has the time for it and would use it well be reading and heeding Dr. Hanson’s advice.