If you don't fail once in a while, you're simply vegetating your way through life. In his environment, he probably fails more that most folks, but he also wins, and wins big! Now, I direct your attention to our “Congress!” They have a patent on failure! Will President Trump fail, sure! Will he win absolutely, unlike Cruz and the other “current and former government officials” who are running against him. Cruz hasn't been remotely successful as a Senator, neither has Paul or Rubio. And don't get me started on the 1%ers, who in many respects, are even worse that the three sitting Senators. I've actually had a mini-epihany of sorts in that I finally see the “conservatve movement” for what it really is, an abject failure. A bunch of idealogs who care more about their precious “principles” than in actually accomplishing anything of value for their country, Sure, I still believe as they do, but I can readily see that they are ineffective at leading because they are hidebound by their own dogmatic approach to government.
And this is how a carnival-barking con artist kills the conservative movement. It's absolutely stunning to me that people are willing to abandon their bedrock principles so readily for this bullying blowhard. I hope your principles were weak to begin with. Otherwise, this country is in more danger from Trump than I thought.
Cruz has been an enormously successful voice for the conservative movement, calling out the RINO establishment at every turn. We finally have a solid chance to launch a conservative revolution with him and one greedy, self-promoting developer steps in and is poised to destroy it all. He may in fact be a Democrat plant. And maybe the reason Trump didn't run in 2008 is because he saw Romney would be a successful designated loser to keep the Democrat in power. This cycle, he saw that a conservative could win and had to stop it by throwing the election to a Democrat himself.
Just exactly how do you separate “principles” from “accomplishing something of value?” Which principles are the ones we need to abandon in order to achieve “value” and why?