The Party Can No Longer Decide

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The Party Can No Longer Decide

Donald Trump is a stress test for the American right. The results are terrible either way.

By MATTHEW SHEFFIELD • March 10, 2016

If 2012 was the presidential election in which data-driven journalism really came into its own, the 2016 Republican nomination contest has been the one in which the conventional wisdom has continually been shattered.

 

Besides driving Republican officials to distraction, Donald Trump has been the bane of journalists from data geeks like Nate Silver and the New York Times’s Nate Cohn to more old school analysts like Ron Brownstein of National Journal. The former television star’s unorthodox background and brash demeanor has upended the conventional wisdom about how American political parties’ nominations are determined.