The Neal I knew at the UH was an excellent colleague. He has retired, but he's still an excellent political commentator, as this article demonstrates. Hawai'i in general and Hawai'i politics in particular tend to be inward-looking, sometimes to the point of solipsism. We need to hear more from him  and we need more like him - people who stand a bit back from the manini daily grind and see Hawai'i as part of a larger political picture. To which one might add that, if Neal's numbers are correct, that 40% of (native?) Hawaiians support Donald Trump is a total surprise – how could that be?