Trump on Obama 2009
Trump on Hillary 2008
http://spectator.org/blog/65054/trump-08-i-know-hillary-i-think-shed-make-great-president
Trump is cynically playing a conservative and the sheep are following the pied piper.
You are right on but how does the momentum get stopped. He seems to have everyone under a spell. The same thing happened in Toronto with former Mayor Rob Ford.