That description suits the president-elect to a T.

It’s true, his election does reflect democracy at work — but that’s because there was a peaceful transfer of power from President Biden to America’s commanding liar, who’s spent the last four years squawking ad nauseam that the 2020 election was rigged against him.

(Recall what his corrupt mentor, the late defense lawyer Roy Cohn, counseled him to do whenever confronted with opposition: “Never give in, never admit, lie and attack …” Ponder the enormity of such a policy in the leader of the free world.)

Is Macdonald prepared to see democracy dismantled at the hands of the bulldozing narcissist with a view to dictatorship; to see Russia “do whatever the hell they want” to NATO allies if they don’t kowtow to him; to see climate change continue to ravage the Earth because he denies its reality; to see him destroy principled opponents like Liz Cheney, whom he’s had the effrontery to threaten, literally or not, with “a gun trained on her face”?

And yet: Macdonald insists that Bates students ditch what she considers their intolerance of opposing opinions and “grow up.”

William LaRochelle, Lewiston