Published in CST Online
Author Gary R. Edgerton

There are only two possible conclusions from listening to [Trump’s] folly: either the President actually believes what he is saying, in which case he is crazy, or he does not, in which case he is engaged in the most cynical attack on American democracy ever to come from the White House. — Author, editor, and journalist, Susan B. Glasser, 3 December 2020 ( The New Yorker )