The Atlantic: The Seven Broken Guardrails of Democracy — “Here’s the part of the 2016 story that will be hardest to explain after it’s all over: Trump did not deceive anyone. Unlike, say, Sarah Palin in 2008, Trump appeared before the electorate in his own clothes, speaking his own words. When he issued a promise, he instantly contradicted it. If you chose to accept the promise anyway, you did so with abundant notice of its worthlessness.”

The naive, semiliterate, undereducated, the mad and alienated are all easy prey to the GOP and the Trump point of view and Trump University