The Runaway Campaign

The year 2015 will be remembered as one of the most bizarrely compelling and genuinely unnerving in the nation’s modern political history. One contender entered the race as the scion to a political dynasty. Another entered as a reality television star. There were the religious factions, the Tea Partiers, even a moderate or two. The Republican primary quickly bloated to seventeen candidates. But where the establishment had chosen a few frontrunners behind which it would select the eventual nomine