DB, you don’t quite get it.
We do not have a Constitution any more than ancient Rome still exists.
The Constitution is gone - it has not been followed by either party for years.
Trump will follow the Constitution when elected, because he’ll find the right legal advisers, AG, Supreme Court picks, etc.... at least we hope so.
But you want/expect a candidate in this day and age to run a campaign based on a document that nobody cares about any more?
Look, don’t shoot the messenger. It’s not that I’m not a Constitutionalist. It is just that our country, the people of this country, have degraded so far that the Constitution means as little to them as it means to their elected representatives.
Sorry, we must accept the consequences of the last 25 years. It’s not the USA that elected Reagan. It’s much dumber.
If the constitution doesn’t return, neither will America.
So either it is the core principle or isn’t.
I see very little interest to the constitution from Trump. For Trump “security” overrides the 4th amendment. That’s recent - not “old news”. When he ran as the Reform Party candidate he ran on banning “assault” weapons, whatever those are.