What Factors Gave Us Trump?

What are the big elements that changed a decade of American political-watching and existence?

When Trump first “descended the escalator,” I doubt anyone thought he would win in that year — at the time of the escalator thing, I believe Jeb Bush was considered a potential favorite to be the Republican nominee — much less that, almost 10 years later, a former Manhattan real estate developer would consume all the political oxygen for basically a dec…