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Trump has spent his life solving business problems and making money.

Conservatives like Sowell spent their lives studying conservative principles from a historical perspective.

Those who are ideologically conservative know why Hillary’s failed ideas won’t work because we have seen them fail over and over here, in Russia, China, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. (Hillary is ideologically liberal, meaning that she cannot be convinced liberalism doesn’t work. If it isn’t working, in her mind, you just aren’t using enough of it.)

Trump has never pointed out the philosophical failures of liberalism / socialism. Instead, he points out that the economy is terrible. Blacks are worse off. Crime is going up. Etc. He knows career politicians like Hillary are not doing their jobs. Notice how he did not focus on her political philosophy in his critique at the last debate. He focussed on her experience. He pointed out that it was all bad. I think most people watching can relate more to that than trying to understand the failure in the terms people like Sowell would use.

Ideologues, like myself, don’t need anecdotal evidence. We are like Rush who famously hoped Obama would fail. A lot of people misunderstood that he meant he wanted bad stuff to happen. No. We knew bad stuff would happen if Obama succeeded by implementing his plans.

Trump, as a non-ideologue problem-solver, will probably defer to those who are subject matter experts in areas where his expertise is limited, at least until he is up to speed on an issue. He has a long, successful track record of team building and executive management. Much more than Hillary.

For ideology, a better contrast than Trump and Sowell would be Trump and Cruz. Cruz is an ideologue. On most important issues he and Trump will come to the same conclusion. They just take different paths to get there.

Neither approach to solving problems is inherently better than the other, as long as the problems are solved. It is better that Trump has the nomination over Cruz though because, even though Cruz might do better in a debate performance, he would not be able to weather the media storm that has been thrown at Trump. And Trump will be able to cut through bureaucracy to get things done better than Cruz could have.

And, regarding your question, this nation was founded by ideologues. Sure, they were men of action. Sure, they were problem solvers, too. But they were mostly men who took a step back and studied political philosophy and history to see what went wrong in the past. They attempted to correct these flaws in this new form of government. That took ideologues. Trump does not have to be an ideologue. He has committed to conservative governance based on his observations and personal experiences with what works and is beneficial to society. We need both approaches, but right now Trump is the right man for the job.

America is ready to say, “You’re hired!”