Trump made news yesterday by saying he would impose mandatory death sentences on any cop killers. Not surprisingly this was before a police union which had endorsed his campaign.
What you have to realize about Trump is that he absolutely no hard and fast political principles. He has the instincts of carnival barker of reponding to an immediate clientele, without reference to coordinates in universal moral time and space.
His comments of the death penalty and on preventing Muslim immigration lack any substance because they are beyond the Constitutional authority of the President. They are thrown out to appeal to a specific audience and specifically their to their emotions, prejudices and fears.
He's also thrown out ideas that are absolute heresy to the Republican establishment.. against Free Trade.. which is what interests me about him. Anyone who casts aspersion at that moron Reagan's free market, trickle down, debauched economic theories.. is not someone difined by an ideology.
I actually think he would be a better President than some others simply because he is not an ideologue.. can turn on a dime, and has a keen sense for opportunity and for interests the common man.
I don't think he'll win.. but the rage with which the political and media establishments are reacting to him.. indicates to me there is something worth considering.. much as there was with Ross Perot in 1992.
He's a better executive than he is an advocate... the latter of which come out as a confused jumble of half baked pitches.
