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Washington Post: Why Trump is winning, as shown in Wednesday night’s dueling programming (Philip Bump). The key quotes: “Trump is famous and powerful and viewed by many Americans as the country’s salvation….[The caucus captain hat] was a symbol that Kim was part of Trump’s essential inner circle. Kim and her fellow caucus captains are, for the next week or so, some of the most important people in Trump’s world, and that hat proves it….This is what Trump gets about politics that his opponents don’t: Voters — and particularly his voters — want to be part of something outside of themselves. Trump has effectively commuted their frustrations about the world into a sense of optimism about how he’ll overcome or destroy those frustrations.”

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