A multiple-exposure image of a live television broadcast of former President Donald Trump’s interview with CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins for a town hall election special hosted by CNN, in Clermont, Fla. on May 10, 2023. Trump always ridiculed people, but when he brought that into the presidential arena, it was like injecting a virus of cruelty into the political bloodstream, Maureen Dowd writes. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)