The Innocent Have Nothing To Fear - But Who Decides Who's Innocent?

But we should fear one vindictive man deciding who is guilty, innocent, or if it really matters at all.

In the spring of 2016, my novel, “The Innocent Have Nothing To Fear,” was published by Knopf. I finished the novel a year earlier, before a candidate named Donald Trump rode down a golden escalator.

The novel was set over four days at a deadlocked Republican Convention in New Orleans. The race for the nomination was between a former Vermont governor and …