The host’s monologue and Fox column this morning are his very sober case for Trump/Vance.  I cannot assail his reason – I agree with him.  My issue is that a significant portion of the nation seems to have moved “past” reason and rationality.

Hysteria:

behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess

We’re swimming in a sea of it.  Certainly, the lengths to which the Democratic Party was willing to go to get rid of Biden and put Harris on the ticket indicates a level of “unmanageable fear.”  Had it been manageable they might have had some sort of process that made it, at a minimum, appear to be democratic in some fashion.  But, alas, no.  But that is minimal compared to:

The host opened the show a couple of days ago with a Joy Reid (MSNBC) clip.  I have the link all set up here, but I can’t do it – I can’t drive traffic to her.  The language she uses to describe Trump’s immigration policies can only be described as hysterical.

This:

A Sept. 6 post on X that has since amassed 146,000-plus views features a screenshot of a “Diversity and Inclusion Statement” students at Stanford must provide when applying to enroll in the marketing class offered by the Department of Management Science and Engineering.

Loyalty pledges?  Really?!  A tactic used by both the Nazis and the Soviets has found a place in academia?  Sounds hysterical to me.

But there is no hysteria like environmental hysteria.

Researchers from Switzerland and other countries discovered that of the roughly 14,000 known chemicals in food packaging, 3,601 — or about 25 percent — have been found in the human body, whether in samples of blood, hair or breast milk.

That is an utterly hysterical statement.  Read further and they only point to one of those 14,000 chemicals that is a suspected hazard.  The study contains no hypothesis about a mechanism of transfer, it simple assumes that if it is in the packaging, that is how it gets to the body.  It never mentions levels present – dosage is very important when it comes to toxicity.  This is reporting that simply makes people hysterical because…chemicals!  (Guess what, your body is composed of chemicals – all of it.)

And hysteria leads to conspiracy paranoia.

Fossil fuel companies have invested more than £4bn in sports sponsorship “in an attempt to divert attention from their role in fuelling the climate crisis and harming human health”, according to a new report.

Green think-tank New Weather Institute (NWI) analysed more than 200 active deals, claiming “sport is increasingly one of the areas oil and gas companies are using to greenwash their reputation”.

Oh no – oil companies are advertising!?!?!?  Not that!

The Harris campaign is not based on reason or rationality – it is based purely in hysteria – environmental hysteria, diversity hysteria, anti-Trump hysteria….

That’s the bottom line in this election – hysteria v reason.  Trump is the only reasonable choice, but the polls would indicate that far too many people are engaged in the hysteria.  Their hysteria may be disguised in a reasonable looking shell, quoting media very interested in creating and spreading hysteria – but secondhand hysteria is still hysterical.

For the third time I find myself needing to cast a vote for Donald J Trump.  I have been, all along, a reluctant Trump voter.  This time my reluctance is far easier to overcome than the previous two opportunities.  This is not a choice between more or less reasonable.  This is a choice between reason and hysteria.  We simply cannot succumb to hysteria.