(2) Trump struck exactly the right note on the right issue, immigration, from the get go.
(3) Trump has become the symbolic Paladin against the Republican establishment.
(4) Trump is become the symbolic Paladin against the media.
(5) Trump's pugnacity is misunderstood by the voters to be commitment to conservative values.
(6) The Republican establishment has created an atmosphere ideal for a maverick, even an obnoxious maverick.
(7) the electorate is desperate to be rescued from the twin betrayers in the person of Barack Obama and in the Republican establishment who are driving the Republic full speed toward the fiscal cliff.
(8) the electorate is frightened by the specter of terrorism and belligerent China abroad and they desperately seek a leader but confuse bellicosity with tenacity.
(9) Trump's obdurate refusal to apologize for anything leads unwary voters to believe that he will hold fast to political promises made now and rule as a conservative against a Republican establishment who have repeatedly lied to the public and in contradistinction to Barack Obama who has also repeatedly lied to the electorate.
