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Well, on one hand you’re saying he believes in what he’s doing and genuinely wants to make America great again. I think that too.

But then on the other hand, you seem to be saying that Trump does not necessarily believe what he’s saying. I don’t buy that because either he believes in what he’s saying and doing or he doesn’t. I think he does.

That isn’t to say I think Trump is right on everything because I don’t think he is. But then nobody is. I think Trump can get the ball rolling. His VP has got to be the guy we want as President after eight years. Seems like a Trump/Cruz ticket would be a good one.

Probably one of the strongest draws to Trump is that he will whoop the Dem’s candidates like he was their daddy. I don’t see Cruz beating Hillary and Co. but I see Trump beating her like a drum. With Trump there’s hope. At this point, I don’t see much of an alternative, really, because another Dem/Socialist President would be so disastrous.

Did Trump believe what he was saying in 2012 when he said that Romney's idea to "self-deport" illegal aliens was "mean-spirited", and "crazy"?

Trump sees himself as a problem-solver, and how he sees a problem one day might not be how he sees it the next. To put it differently, both Republicans and Democrats would like to improve inner city poverty. The goal is the same, but our ideologies lead us to prefer vastly different means of achieving that result.

I am confident Trump will always do what he thinks best. But I think he's too much of a pragmatist to be able to count on him following through on specific promises.

Just as one tiny example -- just about every person you try to deport physically is entitled to a court hearing (that has to be scheduled, etc.), and for which the illegal is entitled to a taxpayer funded lawyer. If you know anything about the court system, the idea that we could actually "round up and deport" tends of million of aliens is a pipedream. It simply cannot happen in anything less than...a long period of years.

So what does the pragmatist Trump do when his promise to round up and deport all those people collides with the realities of the legal system? Where does he go from there?

I don't know. And that's the problem.