For the third U.S. presidential election in a row, Donald Trump is the Republican Party nominee. 2024 actually marks Trump’s fourth presidential campaign; in 2000, Trump briefly ran for president with the Reform Party. But he grew disenchanted with the Reform Party and dropped out of the race in February of that year. It wasn’t until the 2016 election that Trump achieved real prominence in U.S. politics, and he has dominated the GOP ever since. The Atlantic’s Mark Leibovich discusses that dominance in a think piece/essay published on September 9, explaining how Trump pulled it off. READ MORE: …