After his win in the New Hampshire primary, all but assuring that he will be Republican Party’s nominee for the third consecutive presidential election, Donald Trump has to be rated one of the most enduring and creative political figures in American history.
He towers over our era with his ability to command a major American party. He drives his enemies mad and makes many of them rich at the same time. He inspires wall-to-wall news coverage that is similar in tone to that offered in fictional depictions of a hostile alien invasion of Earth. His rise to power coincided with a trend in America by which larger and larger groups of people primarily defined themselves by their political proclivities. (Sociologists have now found that people who identify as conservative Republicans are likely to identify as Evangelicals, too, even if they don’t go to church.)
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