The key will be, as it was in 2016, to be better entertainers than he; to have "better" entertainers than he is; to have better material - not righteous but true, not pointed at what he did but at the effects of what he and his administration are doing.

These are different tactics than we are used to seeing in our elections. But we are dealing with a clown not a patriot. We neither need nor want a clown to lead us to Hamlin. We want leadership into an honorable healthy and democratic future.