 But one of the things he said, which I think disavows the central premise of his book, is things like, quote, as always, America's ruling class wrote the checks and communities like mine paid the price in relation to the idea that the drug crisis was imposed on them. In other words, it's a supply problem, not a demand problem. That is not the premise of J.D. Bantz's book that made him famous. There were a couple of things like that that sounded to me like the rhetoric. Boilerplate Democratic talking points I've spent my entire life voting against.