TIME magazine is no far-out political rag. Nancy Gibbs is a serious American writer and observer of its civic culture. We are far down the line of political trouble when Nancy Gibbs in TIME offers this analysis of the current White House occupant.

What Donald Trump “knows” derives from the seamy worlds of real estate, casinos and reality TV, and it is his infected worldview, paired with his distant acquaintance with actual truth, that is now the most frightening characteristic of this presidency.

Nancy Gibbs (web photo courtesy of TIME.com)