To fear or not to fear Trump?

Some portray him as dark, others as a mere egotistical carnival barker. The best response is in the middle.

I’ve recently had a chance to read most of the new books on Donald Trump and peruse a few others from 2019 and 2020.

Most are interesting, with some better than others. ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl’s Betrayal probably does the best job out of all the newer books in documenting how the January 6 Capitol attack occurred. But there have been important details coming out almost daily since it was released last fall, so it’s almost obsolete by…