Hadn’t thought about the third positionist angle, maybe so, though I think Trump will have him beat on that score by reopening the frontier via public lands and space.
The thing that Trump’s legions here do not grasp is that Trump isn’t really a Republican, and never was.
There was a moment in one of the first debates when he lashed out at Jeb! and attacked the Iraq war disaster - and the hand-picked audience lept to their feet cheering.
That brought to mind “there’s something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear” - and it’s still not quite clear, except power in the country is laying on the ground waiting for someone to pick it up, and when someone does, it will be a vast, unstoppable coalition of people who hate the Republicans with people who hate the Democrats.