Historians will look back on the presidential primary season and write of an ineluctable outsider whose policies were, in several cases, not those of the party he seized and of which he was not even a member.

They will document the rising alarm among party bigwigs reaching a peak as the candidate cruised from a strong second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses to crushing victories in New Hampshire and Nevada.

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