I've said this before on different threads, but let's look at the long view.
If it comes down to either Trump or Clinton, I guess Trump would be slightly better. But one thing Trump will definitely NOT!!! do is spread the conservative message. He will spread Donald H. Trump's message....me, myself, and I.
So say Trump wins this year (Trump wins this year, Trump wins this year, etc.) We have maybe stopped ultra-leftism for four years. But Trump has some screwy, leftist positions of his own. But whatever.
We can be sure that since the Dem Party has now descended into the stinking swamp of ultra-leftism, in four years they will nominate another nutty leftist. They will keep nominating nutty leftists for the far foreseeable future unless the political atmosphere changes.
As stated before, Trump is not the person to deliver a conservative message. He is a one off.
But now the Republican Party has decided it wants to be a populist/nationalist party. No conservative philosophy please.
In four or eight years we will be in the same spot we are now. There is no other party that pushes the conservative/free trade/limited gov. message other than Libertarians. And Libertarians have decided that pushing legalization of pot is the most important issue of the century.
So in four or eight years the Pubbies will be sending a quasi-Trump as their standard bearer under the new populist/nationalist/isolationist philosophy.
That message will not defeat the march of leftism that has won over the young set who are viewing socialism much more favorably than past generations. There's no way Bernie Sanders could have been as successful forty years ago. George McGovern, a pre-Sanders, socialist Democrat candidate, got killed against a moderate Republican.
We need a conservative champion. Trump is not that person. He will do great harm to the conservative movement in the Republican Party if he has not already killed it.
There's no way this country will survive on its present course of unabashed socialism. Unless we figure out how to get the conservative message front and center, we're doomed.