Well Cruz is right, Trump is a NY liberal posing as a conservative, most of the rest of America doesn’t agree with NY liberal morality and politics.
Oh come on. You managed to get that whole thing wrong.
He is not a NYC or NY State ( Albany ) liberal. Both crime syndicates (D) and (R) have no claim to him and he used them at will when convenient. No way in hell is he of the Carey-Cuomo-Koch-Dinkins-Spitzer-DeBlasio or the Rockefeller-Lindsay-Bloomberg-Pataki-Guiliani line of losers. Maybe Koch is a somewhat close comparison, a "lovable" maverick.
I'm mystified as to what he could have possibly have done to thread the needle here in any way to satisfy someone bigoted against New Yorkers! How could he have played it any better? Given his business is so tied to local bureaucracies ( unlike people like Gates and Buffet ) there is no way to escape interaction with the slimey underbelly of government.
But you're also wrong by saying he is posing as a conservative. He is NOT posing as anything, he is transparently himself, nothing could be clearer. He does not claim to be Scalia or Thomas, but he said Thomas is his idea of a good justice. He is not doctrinaire (C) but he is not running for Supreme Court, or Senator or the House or pastor or pope. He is running for bulldozer-in-chief.
If you see him playing a role then it is you who are projecting onto him and then complaining he is not matching your own projections. But no-one here or anywhere is being fooled as you believe. They know exactly who he is. They also know exactly what they want - for this particular job.
It would seem that the whole world is crazy and only you are left sane. It must be lonely.
Trump’s values? FACT: Trump is the ONLY GOP candidate running who supported the Establishments of BOTH parties (mostly democrats), and NEVER endorsed a grassroots conservative for POTUS.
He donated to Carter and Mondale over Reagan. He supported the candidacy of Bill Clinton, TWICE; and credits Slick Willy as the best president in the last 20 years. He supported John Kerry’s presidential run in 2004. He supported Nancy Pelosi as Speaker in 2006. He supported, and said his Marxist friend Hillary would make a good president in 2008, and AFTER his Marxist friend Hillary lost the democrat nomination, he endorsed John McCain (Establishment candidate) only one month before the general election. He supported Obama and his policies (aka. said he would hire Obama, Obama’s Stimulus Package, auto bailouts, foreign policy, etc) from 2008-11. He supported Harry Reid’s Senatorial campaign over Tea Party favorite Sharon Angle in 2010. He donated 100k supporting John Boehner in 2012. He endorsed the GOP’s Establishment Presidential candidate in 2012