Every articulated policy position produces people who will benefit, and people who will lose from that policy position. The latter group is likely to be stronger in its opposition, than the former will be in support.
Trump has decided on one policy area, illegal immigration, and defined a position that he thinks will get a lot of people in support, and relatively few people in opposition, and those people were unlikely to vote Republican anyway.
I think he's going to stick with that, and push the fact that he's not in the pockets of the Establishment.
Agree. Trump is basing his entire campaign on securing the border. He’s vowed to do it. The idea that he could win on this promise, then get in the Oval Office and pretend it was all a joke, he never meant it to be taken seriously, etc., goes way beyond Kool Aid. It’s an alternate realty
Trump is not running so that, if he wins, he’ll go down in history as the most duplicitous, hated POTUS of all time. He’s running to win...and to keep on winning once in office.
And the only way to do the latter is to build the wall.