What Trump had that none of the rest of them did was supreme self-confidence that it did not matter. Having won an election against all odds, he acted as if he did not have to listen to the experts because, after all, he had prevailed when they said he could not. His most fervent allies would cite that victory as proof that even his most inane or uninformed ideas might turn out to be right since he had already disproved conventional wisdom. He was wedded to his successful formula. He did not need a policy process or an organization chart or a rigorous schedule or message discipline in 2016, so
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