I remember when I covered the presidential campaign (briefly) for the late-lamented Village Voice in 2016. The first thing I did was log onto Trump’s campaign website. You want to know what was there? A banner reading “Trump For President,” and below that, a list of the next two or three rallies Trump was holding, each with a big “Tickets” button where you could sign up to attend the rally.

That was it. No so-called “white papers” on issues, no recent quotes from the candidate, no links to interviews he had given to local news outlets, not even any video from the rallies he had already held.

It bears noting that it worked. Trump won his race against his opponent Hillary Clinton, who had over three dozen well-studied published policy papers on her website. Going into the month of the election, Trump held 43 rallies in the five weeks before election day on November 8. On Saturday, November 5, 2016, he held rallies in Tampa, Florida; Wilmington, North Carolina; Reno, Nevada; and Denver, Colorado. The next day, Sunday the 6th, he held rallies in Sioux City, Iowa; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Sterling Heights, Michigan; Moon Township, Pennsylvania; and Leesburg, Virginia. On November 7, the day........

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