If you don’t support Vattel, you cannot claim to be an Originalist.
Cruz is not a Conservative and his votes prove it. So between a NOT conservative foreigner, and a not too conservative businessman who is an outstanding success, I’ll take the businessman whose instincts are more AMERICAN than his opposition. I’m sick of voting for conservative politicians and losing!
Then you should NEVER vote for a politician who has EVER lavished praise on Obama and Hillary as great American leaders and then styled himself as more-or-less conservative. If Trump is a solid patriot with great ideas, how come he could not spot these unprecedented, anti-American monsters from the start?
Trump is WAY more flawed than you have noticed. His flaws are politically fatal IMHO.