New Trump tome 'The Divider' offers most comprehensive chronicle of his term to date

The Divider is the latest in what has become a procession of books about the Trump presidency, but there are reasons to think it arrives right on time.

Even after several Cabinet-level advisers, family members and former staff at various levels have unloaded their recollections, and after some of the biggest names in journalism have weighed in, the husband-and-wife team of Peter Baker and Susan Glasser still tell a story that insists on attention like a fresh wound.

Donald Trump may have lasted only four years in the White House but, unlike other one-term presidents, his era and aura seem unending. His grip on the Republican Party appear as viselike as ever, his insistence on his pre-eminence unabated. He cannot even acknowledge that he lost, and insists he has a right to act as if he hadn't. And more than a third of the country professes to believe him.

The threat to democracy detailed in these pages did not begin with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, nor did it end there. As the authors of themselves conclude in their Epilogue, Trump "emerged from a seven-million-vote defeat, two impeachments and the January 6