Truthfully, I don't know what to think of Trump as a Republican candidate.
I know what I think of him as a person--he's an obnoxious, ignorant blowhard--but as a "serious" candidate? I just can't see it happening. In fact, I'm almost positive he will not only fail to be the nominee, but that this next debate will showcase how incompetent he is about governing the literal world.
I'll admit, his insults are funny at first (if you actually like that sort of humor), but at the end of the day he's a one-trick pony whose central comeback to anyone who disagrees with him is: "you're a doody head." People get bored with that after awhile.
I heard him on Hugh Hewitt's radio show on my way home from LA a few nights ago and it was so telling how in the dark he was about many foreign policy issues. After failing to acknowledge he knew any of the major terrorist leaders in ISIS, etc. he said Hugh Hewitt was playing "gotcha" journalism with him. Um, dude. You're running for president during war time. It's a legitimate question and you failed to answer it with any legitimate answer.
Also, I laughed out loud--a literal "lol" as it were--about the idea that his candidacy has brought about the discussion on immiration reform. Really? I'm sorry, but both sides have acknowledged immigration has been out of control for years. Donald Trump doesn't even have a solution to fix it. It's just, "I'll build a wall so fast your head will spin." He doesn't have any real rationale for executing those plans. His candidacy is more of the same whether people or himself sees it or not. He speaks in generalities and makes grandiose promises he'll never be able to deliver on. It might sound like a "breath of fresh air", but at the end of the day it's just hot air all over again.