Playwright Robert Schenkkan’s new work, “Building the Wall,” is a hot-take play that depicts what could unfold after a terror attack in Times Square encourages President Trump to declare martial law and imprison more and more immigrants and suspects until his private prison system morphs into Nazi-style death camps. It’s a metaphor for how America increasingly allows fear to overshadow public policy — and how President Trump masterfully exploits it. The play will have an off-Broadway run beginning in May. With the production nearing, I called the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer as part of a larger story on why Trump inspires artists more than other presidents, but our discussion touched on topics so vital to our democracy that I wanted to make it available. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of a conversation so blistering, so intelligent, so exciting that it could only have occurred in the New York Daily News. To read more, click here.