What it takes to be president

Hint: It’s not experience, intelligence, or morals

Protesters at the 2017 San Francisco Tax March hold a caricature of Donald Trump clutching fistfuls of money. All photos by Pax Ahimsa Gethen, CC BY-SA 4.0.

This week, I’ve been monitoring the fallout from the latest drama surrounding President Donald Trump; namely, the forthcoming book by renowned journalist Bob Woodward and yesterday’s op-ed in the New York Times by an anonymous senior official in the administration. Both accounts repeat what has been said since the beginning of…