Deviate? You mean from The Given Word of Trump? Heresy? Lol.
Not really the case.
Trump isn’t telling folks what to think. He’s just the first Republican in a looooong time saying what many conservatives think.
From abortion, the second amendment, our allies carrying their weight, cutting into some of these government agencies, to trade, all this LGBTQ nonsense, government regulations, the use of the IRS to silence religious based dicent, use of military force... I can say he is the ONLY candidate that pretty much echoed my thoughts (long held beliefs even before Trump came along).
Most of these republican candidates are wishy washy on the real issues. They will take a symbolic stand to differentiate themselves, to sell themselves on some BS issue, but they will NOT rock the boat on most of the real issues and are damn near indistinguishable from the Democrats. Example, may it be Bush or Clinton, when it came to China they will play along. Do not rock that boat! You will piss off a lot of folks making billions, folks with media influence, that give big to the parties and campaigns. If you screw with China, you will get the media, big tech, some big retailers, oligarchs go against you 100%. If you screw with big pharma, you will get folks with enormous political weight against you, and may it be Obama or Bush, they get what they want and all of these McCain’s, Romney’s, Bush’s, McConnells just play along.
While in office, I could not disagree with him on literally anything, and yes, that made him really popular to some including me.
In a way, Trump is a paradox. Here’s a billionaire, a guy from the North East, ivy league educated, living in cities and married to an immigrant. Yet it is Trump that represented the heart of fly over country, the religious right, the second amendment supporting, and more nationally minded middle class and blue collar folks.