Should we be asking ourselves why anyone with good sense would want to be the next President of the United States? The overwhelming, multi-faceted disruptive effects of four years of open border alone will require enormous and expensive remedial actions to restore cultural order out of spreading chaos. Can the office retain enviable global prestige when its primary responsibility becomes remedial rather than inspirational? This challenge demands a different kind of public respect and support as our “melting pot” society copes with inordinate and uncontrolled socioeconomic change resulting from unfamiliar raw ingredients. Our next President and supporting cast must address the added complexity of domestic cleaning up in the kitchen while also restoring international respectability from allied interests. That challenge must include improved government transparency with the entire populace it supposedly represents. The public should not tolerate obfuscation or suppression of pertinent information recorded on laptops, interview tapes, or some redacted records, and I can’t imagine that it will accept obvious differentiated justice. Election Day affords a democratic opportunity to second-guess decisions made by the incumbent and bring about a course correction. The oddity this year lies in the voting public’s ability to contrast both candidates’ leadership performance in consecutive four-year White House terms. What most of us have seen can readily be believed as what likely lies ahead. Phil Osifer