text:  You know, to which I would say, I do have strong political views. I don't feel that that's why anybody pays 30 bucks for a novel of mine and I don't inject them into my books. But my characters live in the world. And I can no more imagine setting a novel in the years 2010 to 2024 and not talking about the Trump years, for example, than setting a novel in Europe in 1938 and not talking about the war.