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“He did not buy a failed movement. He ignored all the Ideology and Philosophies and moves us toward practical politics and solutions.”

Not all of us are going to join the Trumpeteers and become liberal democrats under a new title. I don’t know what banner the Trump movement will end up with, Republican or Conservative, but I won’t be under it. I suspect he’ll gravitate back to the democrats, especially if he doesn’t get the Republican nomination. For years I’ve viewed the Republican party as the path to election for Conservatives. We may end up with a viable Conservative third or fourth party after this debacle.

Trump is the battering ram into a new era of Nationalism and Americans first. If he screws it up we will dump him and move on. This phony solidarity of the Establishment Republicans ( Cruz being one too) can't go on much longer. It will fall apart and more Nationalists will appear. Trump, or what Trump says he is, is the tip of the ice berg.

If Democrats wish to win the White House in 2016, they should vote for and elect Trump.Once past the Republican primary, if Trump is convinced he will build a larger coalition by moving to the left, he will. As Jimmy Carter said,Trump is malleable. He will dump his current base of supporters for a much larger base among the general population like he would a loose female after a one night stand. If Democrats will take him as he is now, they will be able to effectively flip him back into a New York Democrat even if he has a Republican label. The far left will never like him but he will trow them enough bones to even make Code Pink happy once in awhile. However, as far as principles, moral, and constitutional issues go, he will stake out the mushy middle and use the old Clintonian triagulation to try and keep popular support as high as he can. Using the art of making a deal, he will firm up support from the leftover establishment on the left and the right. He will not be an ideologue, but a broker to bring establishment powers at the top of the left and right together; and as for the people, Schl__g them.

How ridiculous? Trump is very far from being a Liberal Democrat. It was the second Bush Administration which abandoned what had been traditional Republican Conservative principles on trade, foreign affairs & the size of Government. That Trump has called them out on that, on issues where Republicans are now expected to tow a nonsensical line, is to his credit.

I will agree that he picked the wrong line of attack on the gross mistakes of the Bush Administration, in the Near East. But he understands the origins of the present mess. To understand what was wrong with George W.'s understanding of American purpose, see the juxtaposition of Washington's wisdom with the errant folly in the Bush II Second Inaugural Address: Bush/Washington Debate. (Note how truly relevant are the passages from Washington, quoted; how absurd the Bush misuse of the word "freedom"; etc..