, Columnist
The Most Important Fact About Trump
Republican opposition to him was deep and wide, and then it was ignored.
The focus was way off.
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No one can accuse the press of failing to expose Donald Trump's weaknesses in the 2016 campaign. The sexual-assault accusations, the lewd and cruel comments, the bullying, the bigotry, the tax dodges, the Trump University shenanigans, the failure to pay contractors, the bankruptcies, the ignorance of government and issues, the kowtowing to Vladimir Putin, the serial falsehoods -- all those things and more have been reported on, extensively.
The question is why the sum of all these parts has seemed to fail to make a cumulative impact on many voters. Maybe it was because he hasn't been judged by the standards for normal presidential candidates, since he is so far from being a normal presidential candidate.