Advice is easy to give, hard to take, and seldom followed even when it’s plainly correct. Yet I’ll try it, even though the probability of it being heard by its intended recipient is close to zero.
To President Trump concerning tonight’s debate:
Trust in God and fear no man. You are the better man: the smarter, the more honest, and the more ethical. Your adversaries have revealed themselves to be petty, dishonest, and inept. Don’t allow their barbs or their tendentious questions to “throw you off your game.”
That would be sufficient to win by a landslide, though that’s a tough metric to apply to a debate.
