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For a man so inept he bankrupted casinos in Atlantic City, it turns out Donald Trump is an adept gambler. In my Oct. 29 column, I framed the election by writing: “The Trump campaign is premised on a risky bet. It is a wager that Americans are secretly as vicious, vulgar and vile as Trump himself.”