If Trump tried to run as a Democrat, given his business views alone, he would be Breitbarted.
If Trump had tried to run as a Democrat, he would have worked almost as much mischief for the Democrat party as he is now doing for the Republicans.
Do not discount the fact that a LOT of the support for The Donald is coming from disaffected members of the Democrat party. And there is a HUGE surge in favor of The Donald coming from the “uncommitted” middle.
Now the winning of the “middle” has always been the stated objective of the Establishment, so for years they have made “conciliatory” moves, shifting ever closer to the liberal Democrat positions, because they seemed to believe that was the “winning strategy” to take votes away from the Democrats.
Here comes The Donald, sweeping in LARGE swathes of these supposedly uncommitted “middle” voters, and he isn’t even trying to pander to the blocs the Democrats have claimed as their own for years. In fact, many of the same things The Donald has adopted for his agenda were first articulated in some form or another by Tea Party activists. And yet, The Donald is not “Tea Party”, nor does he particularly take their counsel.
The Donald is achieving, almost overnight, the pledged objective of the Republican Establishment to woo over the “uncommitted” middle, a task at which they have NEVER succeeded.
And this must be making both the Republican Establishment and the Democrat plutocrats cuffing bat-guano crazy.