Yes, and being trained by a bare-knuckled, no-hold-barred anti-communist brawler like Roy Cohn, he truly UNDERSTANDS the opponents he is facing, and realizes that to combat them effectively he must hit them hard, often, and never let up (because they never do).
You can say whatever you like about Roy Cohn, a prickly, eccentric fellow whose own life seemed to embody a bundle of contradictions, but he loved America, he hated communism, and he understood the nature of the leftist enemy and knew that you can give him no quarter.
Playing by a modified set of polite “Marquese of Queensbury Rules” against a Marxist dooms you to inevitable defeat.
You have to knock em down and don’t let them get back up. And people instinctively know that Trump has this quality.
If you want to win at anything you must score more points than your opponent. And you can only do this by going on offense.
The Leftists are well schooled in the art of political combat and they easily run over Republicans all the time. However, this time they are facing someone who knows how to win and has the killer’s instinct. That’s what it takes.