His opponents are battered and bewildered. They study the polls, hire consultants and assemble coalitions. Their punditry permeates television. And yet, the central question remains. Why does President Trump keep winning?

He defies the odds again and again, rewriting his political obituary with each new victory. The critics cannot comprehend it. The political class has no answers. And the academic analysis repeatedly fails. They look for weakness and find only will. They search for retreat and find resolve to advance. They expect contrition and get defiant confrontation.

Trump wins because he is not merely a politician; he is a phenomenon, a paradigm. He is transformational, resolved, relentless, reckless, focused, unafraid, undeterred and unrepentant. He is a master of the media, surrounded by committed servants who embrace his message and methods.

Most people alive have not seen an American president of this timbre, temerity or temperament. And none of us are likely to see it again. For all the invective aimed at him, Trump continues to triumph. He not only defies convention, he destroys it. From foreign affairs to fiscal policy, he has remade Washington — and, indeed, the world — into a new American paradigm.

Unlike other presidents who governed with one eye on history and the other on polling numbers, Trump governs with both eyes on the prize: power and results. He understands, instinctively,........

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