And just before that, Condé Nast announced that as part of a reorganization, it would consolidate all 21 of its creative departments (all the magazines, websites and 23 Stories, its native advertising arm) under the leadership of Raúl Martinez.

Wait, you say: That’s not a politics story. That’s a media story.

Which it is. Except for one thing: Though his promotion (he is officially called head of the creative group) was intended as business strategy, it had the unplanned effect of casting Mr. Martinez as not only the leader of almost 200 Condé Nast employees at the country’s most influential glossy magazines (like Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour and GQ) but also as the most powerful Latino in glossy publishing.

And that has put a spotlight on someone in the throes of a personal transformation ignited, albeit unintentionally, by Mr. Trump.

While the story of Mr. Martinez is in many ways representative of a number of stories from this strange and twisted election cycle, that he can now tell it from 22 floors up at One World Trade Center gives it a certain reach. Which he intends to use.

“I never really labeled myself ethnically or in terms of sexual orientation,” Mr. Martinez, 54, said a few days after his promotion. It was his first interview on a subject that was not his new group at Condé Nast, and he spoke of a new sense that it was also now his job to put himself above the parapet as the representative of an alternative narrative for a group of people.