However I may sound to your mind, it is not my intention to make excuses for Trump. I am NOT a fan. My perspective is a bit different from yours and so I’m simply not fully convinced that his intent is mendacious. Unlike yourself, neo, parker and others, I haven’t seen enough of what for me, would amount to definitive proof, so as to reach that judgement. But his essentially libelous accusations of Cruz are pushing me in that direction.

You may very well be right. Again, I’m not yet persuaded that Trump is out to destroy the Republican party. Which is an accusation that his goals and motivations are malicious. In many ways he’s a reprehensible human being but that doesn’t make him a political agent provocateur of the democrats.

I’ve always registered as unaffiliated voter but here in Florida, I am going to register as a republican, so I can vote for Cruz. Since the FL primary is in August, it may not matter but I’m not going to assume it won’t.

You may not agree with the analogy, but during my many years in business I’ve dealt with this type, if not at this level. I can spot a business con man, and Trump is right up there with the best. I know their methods, their sales tactics, and their lack of morals. This is a con of major proportions, way beyond Bernie Madoff. This is a con being perpetrated on the entire country.

1.) KING BABY 2.)Malignant Narcissist

Both on steroids. Oval Office? Nope. Nein. Nada.

“The Other Chuck” claims that Trump cannot “win the nomination let alone the general election without the 2/3 of the Republican Party electorate currently aligned against him”.

Romney in 2012 won the nomination with 51% of the delegates. The Electoral College consists of 538 electors and a majority of 270 electoral votes wins the election. That demonstrably disproves Chuck’s assertion that Trump must have the other 2/3 of the Republican Party electorate currently aligned against him. It also ignores the fact that if nominated, a refusal to vote for Trump would be a vote for the democrat.

Chuck asks, “Why would he consistently alienate them if he truly intends to go on to win? Why wouldn’t he be trying his best to bring them around so that his vision of restoring American greatness gets a national hearing?”

Perhaps because in his judgement there is no compromise possible with the GOPe and its supporters before he has the leverage to force real concessions from them? Which would be after he’s won the election anyway. That being when his leverage with the GOPe would be strongest.

That may not be true but at this point it is an alternative explanation to Chuck’s certainty that Trump “has no intention of compromising with the right because his purpose is to disrupt and destroy it.”

I see Trump’s threats to sue and possibly go 3rd party, simply as attempts at political intimidation.

BTW, none of this obviates neo’s accusations as to Trump’s inherent nature.

In light of the Naked Emperor followers’ syndrome human beings harbor, can it be likely that a significant number of those followers who have invested their own gullible support for Trump will face their self-duping now? Not so likely at this point I think, at least for those who can already dismiss Jimmy Carter’s endorsement of Trump and then turn now to dismiss Trump’s own CodePinkerism. These supporters can’t admit their dupery, their chumpitude. Nope, they’re all genuises right along with their Donald, so will hold out at every cost, everyone else be damned.

My only hope is that he does something drastic like going 3rd party (which cannot possibly succeed), and some of his followers wake up because of it.

Your examples don’t fit the situation I was attempting to posit, which was:

(1) someone like that running for president on the other party’s ticket
(2) in order to harm that party

This was the entire quote:

…what’s to prevent a candidate who is against a party and out to destroy it from using that party’s primary process to harm it? What makes Trump a Republican eligible to run in the primary? Because he says he is? I don’t think the situation has ever come up before.