Oh and Kasich, the party's closeted (so to speak) pick is also a republican. Checkout his platform. (He's been endorsed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, another republican)
So tell us, what makes Kasich and Schwarzenegger, Foamie Rubio and Jebito Bush, Ben Carson ..... republicans but Trump not a republican, policy wise?
Sure he is, you just keep hoping that is true. And Bernie Sanders has a whole stable of magic unicorns that fart gold so everyone can be rich and drive race cars that are built by elves.
Trump's history is decidedly democrat, his so called conversion should be treated with the utmost cynicism. He has donated generously his whole life to democrats, he uses big government for personal gain and promises to more big government, his family and most of his staff are registered democrats, he likes single payer government run health care, supports gay privilege, and speaks more highly of democrats than republicans. He even bragged about how great a job Obama was doing on the run up to his reelection. He has failed at most of his business ventures and where he has had some success, it was largely due to a rigged advantage of tax payer subsidies that were not available to little guys like the voters.
Check out his platform.
Donald has some nice position papers and I am sure he will probably get around reading them one day. But he has a lot on his reading list including the Constitution, any book on American history, the Bible especially the part where the two Corinthians walk in to a bar and build a wall to keep out the Mexicans and the Chinese. Plus his position papers do not have a place for him to color in pictures. No one will be more surprised than Trump at what his positions were, it will be such a hoot he will probably punch someone with his little hands all clenched into a fist like a clementine orange and then tweet how he was the victim of a rigged system that did not let him vote on his own platform.
At best Trump has what is called a flexible platform, his positions change to suit the situation to whatever gives him the greatest personal advantage.
It seems he is much more accomplished at stirring up the angry and the ignorant than at anything that could be considered proper governance, but then that is what Democrats do best!