[Trumpinator]

Someone with a record as a conservative, which The Don doesn’t have. I do think he’d be a GREAT Mayor of New York — but then, so was Giuiani, and I didn’t support him for president either.

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Ideology over competence. During the Civil War the north promoted generals based on their adherence the party line over their generalship abilities. It did not work out so well.

Trump is conservative enough. These litmus tests sometimes would disqualify Reagan for the GOP ticket.

[poconopundit]

...During the Civil War the north promoted generals based on their adherence the party line over their generalship abilities. It did not work out so well.

Yes, and Lincoln finally settled on Ulysses S. Grant, a General Patton of his time.   And Grant won the war.

Pennsylvania politician Alexander McClure approached Lincoln about Grant saying:

I appealed to Lincoln for his own sake to remove Grant at once, and, in giving my reasons for it, I simply voiced the admittedly overwhelming protest from the loyal people of the land against Grant's continuance in command.

...When I had said everything that could be said from my standpoint, we lapsed into silence.

Lincoln remained silent for what seemed a very long time. He then gathered himself up in his chair and said in a tone of earnestness that I shall never forget:

I can't spare this man; he fights.

[TBP]

0bama does the same thing with the generals, BTW.

How is Trump conservative?

And no, it’s not true to say that adhering to conservative principles would have disqualified Reagan. That’s a myth spread by the Establishment.