As we predicted, Mr. Trump easily won the Nevada caucus yesterday.

Marco Rubio came in second.

Ted Cruz, third.

For Mr. Trump it was another strong showing and now some in the media are saying that his nomination is a lock.

That is not good news for the Republican Party establishment, which does not see Mr. Trump as a worthy candidate, one who can defeat Hillary Clinton.

But the establishment has been wrong all along.

In the beginning it tried to marginalize Trump, and now the GOP pooh-bahs don't know what to do.

As for Trump himself, as I told you back in August, he's not really a Republican guy:

From The Factor, Aug. 20, 2015

O’REILLY: “Donald Trump really isn't a Republican.  He's a Trumpian.  He has absolutely no interest in what the Grand Ole Party says.  He's a man on a mission, marching to his own beat.  And Trump's timing is good because this presidential cycle should spell doom for the Democratic Party.  It is so far left most Americans are appalled.”

The calculation Donald Trump made from the beginning of his campaign is that Americans are so fed up with career politicians and the direction of the country they don't care anymore about party politics.

Thus, Trump has run as a populist.  Listen to what he said last night:

TRUMP: “We won with evangelicals, we won with young, we won with old, we won with highly educated, we won with poorly educated - I love the poorly educated!”

That was a smart statement because by saying he loves the poorly educated, Trump is slapping the elites whom many voters despise.

Trump realizes that he is mobilizing Americans who never before took part in the political process.

He doesn't care whether you have a Ph.D. from Harvard or a degree from the school of hard knocks.  He just wants your vote.

And obviously he's getting plenty of votes, more at this point in the campaign than Mitt Romney did back in 2012.

Going forward, Talking Points believes the Super Tuesday contests will really tell the tale.

Six days from now 12 states will vote and Trump is competitive in all of them according to polling.

For example in Georgia, Trump leads by 12.

In Massachusetts by 34.

In Virginia he's up by six.

At this point Marco Rubio is running slightly ahead of Ted Cruz, but it's still really a tossup between those two for second place.

And as long as they divide Republican votes Trump will remain a solid favorite.

In the end Donald Trump does not care about political parties, does not care what elites think of him, does not care about what he says in attacking opponents.

He cares about one thing winning.

And that's the memo.