Trump was a billionaire who rode a golden elevator to his Fifth Avenue penthouse, yet he claimed to speak for “the forgotten men and women of our country.” For all his celebrity, he had been a minor player on the national stage. He lacked political alliances, an ideological following, institutional connections. He said and did things that should have blown up his campaign many times over. He was a favorite of the evangelicals, even though he’d been married three times, and, in an unguarded moment, had boasted of grabbing women “by the pussy.” His signature issue was a hard line on immigration,
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