Originally posted by no1marauder
His conservative rivals insisted during the campaign he wasn't a "real" conservative loudly and persistently. The voters in the Republican primaries voted for him anyway. Maybe those voters aren't as interested in what you deem unassailable "conservative" policy preferences as you are.
The entire GOP has been a giant lying party. They give lip service to conservative principles but then "pivet" to big government principles.
In 2010 Republicans were elected in record numbers, as they swore to do such things as enforce a debt ceiling and stop Obamacare. All they had to show for it though was Ted Cruz standing up alone reading Green Eggs and Ham, which is why Ted did so well in the primary process and would have won had it not been for Donald. Unfortunately for Ted, he was then cast as "the establishment' as those in the establishment began endorsing Ted over Trump, and was subsequently defeated. I think the death blow was the teaming up with Kasich to defeat Trump.
People are just tired of being lied to and misrepresented, which is why they voted for an "outsider" in Trump, even though all of the establishment is on the payroll of Trump and he was good friends with the Clintons.
I see two possibilities with Trump. He loses to Hillary which will further the anger against the establishment because the GOP turned against Trump, or Trump wins. If trump wins, my guess is the wall never gets built. More than likely Trump will cry like he always does about how things are so unfair and rigged as either Congress stops him or the courts stop him. My guess is the courts will stop him because that seems to be the favorite tool for the statist.
The rest of his platform looks pretty much like a democrat. Will people then realize that there is no escaping the establishment and take another course of action? Hopefully they will turn to the Article V movement, the only way to stop the establishment.
It has been said that the weakest part of Donald's game is his foreign policy, but then, look at Hillary. She voted to go to Iraq as Donald publically was against it. Hillary also has the Libya disaster on her resume, a total buffoon to be sure. For this very reason I say Donald has slim hope of overcoming a rigged system that has rigged the delegates towards the democrat party, no matter who that candidate is or how corrupt or inept they may be.