Across the United States and around the world, people are struggling to understand why so many turned to Donald Trump--an individual described as rude and insensitive at best, and as racist, hateful, and ignorant at worst--as their champion. Trump's nomination as the Republican presidential candidate, and his subsequent election to president of the United States, upended many long-held assumptions and beliefs about politics, such as the inevitable power of superfunding election syndicates and the need for presidential candidates to have governance experience and broad knowledge of domestic...