I don't let ideology affect my opinion of Trump. The facts are plain to see. He is a horrible candidate. Unelectable? Perhaps. Damaging to the conservative movement? Most certainly. He is definitely not one who is coherent with my limited government and originalist ideology. Would I vote for him over Hillary? Of course. But I would be rolling my eyes and holding my nose at the same time. How much farther would America's prestige worldwide fall going from joke of a President to jackass of a President. HArd to fall farther than rock bottom I guess...
You make a few assumptions in that paragraph.
It's time to focus on WINNING!! That's what Dems do...they aren't chained to any particular ideology, other than *bogus climate change*, promising freebies, and race-pandering, so why should we be constrained by one? I'm serious. That's what's killing us right now. Your idealism is admirable, but it's not a winning strategy and it's passe. Fiscal Conservatism, gone. Limited govt, gone. Originalist ideology, gone. Social issues, forget it. Too much emphasis on God and religion, forget it. In the big picture, many people on our side don't overly fret about these topics...they just want to slap-down Liberalism and the "Progressive loons" and win. And that's fine with me, because if you slap-down the "Progressives" (cute word, huh?) and their clownish, immature, and childish ideas, the issues that are important will take care of themselves.
Only Trump (and maybe Cruz) has the guts to go scorched-earth on this corrupt Clinton broad and drag her name (and Bill's past) thru the mud. It will be easy to do, and it will be a beautiful thing to watch. And the Trump army will grow even larger.
Time to "get with the program". WINNING AT ALL COSTS is the new normal, especially when it means keeping radical far-left Liberal Socialists (and wannabe dictators) like that corrupt liar and race-panderer Hillary out of the Oval Office. We are at war with her and the modern, weird, race-obsessed, and divisive Democrat party. Time to hammer them hard. They deserve it.
When Trump wins, power will return to the people. THAT'S why the establishment hacks and the media are freaking out.