Lets start with what may be the understatement of the year: Donald Trump s presidential campaign was often surprising, occasionally shocking. He routinely made gaffes that would have disqualified a politics as usual candidate. He had a skeletal campaign organization. He spent almost nothing on television advertising until the very end of the campaign. And, he routinely claimed the process was rigged against him, implicating not just the Republican and Democratic political establishments but the traditional news media as well.