The Education of a President…or Not

Steve Russell
Nov 2 · 4 min read
Misguided Souls in Library. Photo by Isaac Benhesed on Unsplash

What do we tell our children about how to become POTUS?

Mario Cuomo famously described the fate of candidates in a democracy who win. Having run in poetry, we must govern in prose. Mr. Cuomo was describing the communication between a politician and the voters, so Donald J. Trump is not reduced to governing in the cartoons that are required to render his briefing materials palatable.

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Steve Russell is enrolled Cherokee, a 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus of criminal justice, and (so far) a cancer survivor.

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