Trump can prove himself. I hope he does.
Agreed, though I'm not sure that the highest office of the land is the best laboratory for upstart political figures to first prove themselves.
If Trump at least had some kind of track record funding and advocating the political positions that he now claims to espouse (as Ross Perot did - i.e. he lobbied for a balanced budget amendment long before he ran with it as a Presidential candidate), I'd be much more comfortable with him. In fact, Trump has never used his wealth and fame to advocate border security until now, if anything, he's been on the wrong side of the issue quite recently.
I should have said that better.
I think he can prove himself before election. His recent ‘comming out’ on the 2A with that position paper was pretty specific and left him little wiggle room, none actually.
That said, those too were just words. But those words came at a personal and vote cost. He basically told the Bloomberg moderates to get stuffed.
More of that IMO will make people rethink opposing him because there’s something at least tangible there.
For me personally he has a -long- way to go but time will tell.
Read Trump’s “Time to Get Tough” published in 2011.