Donald Trump finally broke through the crass ceiling.

Trump's campaign is in turmoil, oh, and he's groping for a grown-up message. Trump trails in every single head-to-head matchup against every single Democrat. Trump won't read a briefing paper, won't pass up an opportunity to heckle a chump, won't use decent grammar, a competent hairdresser or a polysyllabic speechwriter.

Yet the Tangerine Tornado keeps winning and winning, by huger and huger margins – shattering the Never-Trump army and making mockery of the shotgun marriage between chastened foes Ted Cruz and John Kasich. Whether he'll hit the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination before Cleveland, nobody knows, but the developer-reality-star-frontrunner did something in five big races Tuesday night that he's never done before: He consolidated the GOP base behind him with a succession of slam-dunk wins that will make it hard for his opponents to argue he's not the party's legit choice.

In most of his previous wins, he struggled to break 50 percent – on Tuesday he won with 60 percent of the vote in Pennsylvania, a semi-battleground in November that he'll need to win if he's to avoid the loserland fates of Goldwater, Mondale and McGovern.

Oh, and Hillary Clinton did pretty well too. Here are five takeaways.

1. Bernie's Choice. Sanders is not going to be the Democratic nominee (A little secret: Despite the hype, and Sanders small-state seven-of-eight winning streak, the result was mostly baked in after Clinton's five-state sweep on March 15, and the door more or less slammed shut after his 16-point defeat in New York). But after losing another three big northeastern (non-"South") states – Pennsylvania and Maryland – Sanders seems to be trapped in a classic delegate death spiral. He trails Clinton by more than 200 pledged delegates and hundreds more when you throw in super-delegates. But he's not going gently.