Earlier this month, on the sidelines of the quadrennial campaign managers’ conference at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, I spent nearly an hour speaking to two of the architects of President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.

In his 15th-century painting of the Annunciation, Filippo Lippi depicts the Holy Spirit as a dove flying toward the Virgin Mary, who is receiving the news from the archangel Gabriel that God has chosen her to be the mother of Jesus.

The news media is the enemy of the American people, says Donald Trump. Many in the media say it’s the other way around, that it’s the former and future president who is actually the threat to the American way.