“Mr. Trump is an unlikely spokesman for the grievances of financially struggling, alienated Americans…”

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Mr. Trump is an unlikely spokesman for the grievances of financially struggling, alienated Americans: a high-living Manhattan billionaire who erects skyscrapers for the wealthy and can easily get politicians on the phone. But as a shrewd business tactician, he understood the Republican Party’s customers better than its leaders did and sensed that his brand of populist, pugilistic, anti-establishment politics would meet their needs.

Patrick Healy and Jonathan Martin, “G.O.P. Unravels as Party Faces Trump Takeover”, The New York Times (8 May 2016), Y19.

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