I came back to your post again because it's quite poignant, and it is the question of the hour.
I was a Trump supporter from early on for three reasons:
The left has been so successful in controlling the language, and permissible range of debate (the Overton window) that actual "Conservative" principles (as opposed to RINO posturing) was becoming impossible. If we can't openly discuss and advcocate for our ideas then we've already lost, so Trump's refreshing use of non-PC language and willingness to say things plainly (eg: "they are not sending their best") was thrilling and I still view it as the biggest win of his, so far.
I'm not particularly optimistic about his positions on the issues. He is not a ideologue, he hasn't spent years thinking about all this stuff and figured out positions on them. He sort of instinctively found his groove in the campaign and ran with hit.
Now that he's in a position to govern the campaign issues are not nearly as important or central as they were.
In addition Washington has two teams: The wretched Democratic establishment, who truly hate America, are anti-White racists (some are self-hating whites to be sure) and are essentially Communists at one of the three traditional levels of support. (party loyalists, fellow travelers, useful idiots) -- and you have the other team the feckless GOP, with their endless copromising, their weird fifth columnists like McCain and Lindsey, the sad Right leaning press (so many of whom were #NeverTrumpers) and the RINO hacks filling Washington.
Trump did not have a big team of people to pick from who were Trumpists. He obviously rejected everyone associated with Team Donkey, but then had to hire Team Elephant people into key slots, because there is no Team Lion at this point.
So, more and more as the RINO establishment takes control of the policy levers I am prepared (and indeed am seeing) the RINO flavor overpower all others in the Trump admin.
I still enjoy his personality, and his ability to trigger the left. The idea that my liberal male friends were all marching aound with Vagina hats on their heads is priceless.
Still, Trump did promise to stand for us and it's looking increasingly that he's not going to be doing that. Whether it's constraints, or merely a campaign promise he never intended to keep, or simply not having the skills and team to effectively deliver I can't say for sure. I suspect it's a bit of all three.
For me he was the start, but not the end, of what we need. Trump did a great job of forcing fake-Conservatives to identify themselves. The "cuckservative" meme is one of the great accomplishemnts of his campaign. The deconstruction of people like Jeb and Rubio as useless tools was fabulous. We need to take out the trash in the GOP to make room for real advocates for *US*.
But it may well be that Trump himself just isn't going to deliver much of what he promised, or act to support the issues that drew us to him.
It's a larger struggle. The real issue in America is identity: what is America? Who is an American? What is the purpose of America? What is the American Dream in 2017? How do we resolve the conflicting visions different groups have of America? Does America owe something to it's citizens? To the world at large? Are some people (races) owed more than others? Do we have collective guilt for the past? Are some people excluded from that?
These basic foundation issues are ones that I'm interested in, that have to be resolved, if we are to move forward.
Trump is not at fault for all of this. For standing up for what is right after so many have failed to do so, he is now exposing, and causing the evil side to expose even themselves, and showing how evil the society and governmental systems are. It has reached a self-destructive level beyond what many of us even imagined. If God through our prayers does not put his finger in the mix, we are doomed.