He expresses half-baked, or overly-simplistic, but widely held views and ingratiates himself with conspiracy theorists and runs a brilliant campaign based on justifiable public frustration, ignorance and disaffection.
Amazingly, he wins, and then gets a 100-day dose of facts, history and reality from an entrenched form of 'deep State government' known elsewhere as 'the public service' and starts dropping some of the rubbish he started out with.
Maybe not a bad thing to recognise undermining NATO would undermine European stability. Maybe not so bad to leave Obamacare in place, since his preferred position seems to be universal health care, rather than run with the miserable reductions wanted by the 'conservative' Republicans.
Maybe not so bad to be at least recognising the North Korean problem is not going away. Meeting with China president is good, making soothing noises.
Not cosying up to Russia so much - well, they are currently on opposite sides in a savage civil war in Syria, irrespective of both sharing an enemy in ISIS.
Not so good jumping the gun before clear evidence on the Syrian gas attack, but the fact is, the US aim in supporting anti-govt rebels is not to keep Assad in power, so if he bombs one airstrip, it is hardly some extraordinary backflip.
If he's learning something, it's preferable to him not learning anything.
