It appears however that Trump, if he is conservative at all, has achieved this mission objective successfully since everyone is now calling him a liberal!
That's too big of an "if" for me.
Yeah, but what choice did you ever really have? McCain was well-known as an enemy by the time he ran, and Romney was never a secret as being a GOPe dope. At least with Trump there remains a possibility of morphing into a Reagan.
It's not like he would have time to do much other than get the Amnesty/Wall/Alien situation sorted out. If he failed at that then nothing else would matter. The republic will be over once they naturalize enough more aliens to get their 270 electoral vote headstart. Game over! ( even though the elitist conservative talking heads will still pretend there is an election every four years it will be as fake as Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba ).
Sometimes I like to challenge and embarrass the Cruz and doctrinaire (C) elitists to explain the difference between a Constitutionalist ( as they insist Cruz is ) and a non-Constitutionalist ( as they say Trump is ) once they get sworn in. I know the President's powers as well as the next person, and I know the history of most in that office. Now I need to get convinced in just what matters a "Constitutionalist" makes a difference. The truth is, that office is no longer a bastion of Constitutionalism by any measure. Nothing can be solved from there by a "Constitutionalist" who in theory would voluntarily place handcuffs on himself to abide by the Constitution while he gets rolled by the institutional inertia in the District of Criminals.
We had three consecutive "Constitutionalists" in that office, including the principal author of that document, the three Democratic-Republicans, Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe and they dutifully did their best to veto everything non-enumerated from Congress while the FedGov was a tiny fraction of its size and still they failed. At this late point in time Madison himself would cry uncle or need to adopt the strategic ways of a Trump using the bully pulpit, deal making and sheer force of will, all things that were alien and obscene to the Founders.
Recently we get Cruz and Levin jabbering about ethanol and eminent domain, as if specific boutique issues are the primary concern of the republic. Not a single thought occurred to them that these things, and others like Abortion and gay marriage, are not line items he gets to pick and choose from. All he has is executive orders which could be undone in two seconds by the next liberal President and all his successors that will follow thanks to the inevitable crossing of 270 electoral votes once Texas or any other "red" state is turned over to them.
You wonder why so many are gravitating to the "non-Constitutionalist" Trump? They realize the jig is up. This is it ... for real ... now or never.
Actually, I think Romney, overall, is more conservative than is Trump. I think even Dubya was more conservative than Trump.
I And I think Trump is more likely to morph into something to the left of Bill Clinton than he is to morph into Reagan.
At least as of right now, I don't think he has a fundamental mistrust of government. Quite the opposite, in fact. Real estate developers tend to be much more likely to be looking for government help and assistance than just trying to get government out of the way. At least as compared to most other businesses.
As things stand right now, I wouldn't vote for him in the general election. That could change if he gets more specific on some issues of concern to me.