I agree with you, but for each of those statements, he’s made an opposite statement that contradicts it.
Like the national debt, he says we’ll just sell of 17 trillion dollars in U.S. assets. Not like that’s crazy or anything.
And while he says he’d stick to the agreement with Iran, he also never stops saying it was the worst deal ever made. In history. By anyone. Anywhere. Even though this deal is actually very good for a major group that the media never talks about: The Iranian people. They are a young population that wants to have more freedoms and get out from under the crushing weight of their theocratic government. (This is the same reason that I believe the normalization of Cuban relations will be good for the Cuban people)
The problem conservatives have in this climate is that ideological conservatives do not hold the same views as the middle and lower class “conservatives.” When polled, they hold much more liberal views than they even realize. They often don’t understand the government programs that are benefiting them, or that they are even getting government subsidies (or what they’d call freebies or handouts if they see them going to minorities). However, they vote Republican for many different reasons. Democrats have to face the fact that at least 20% of Americans simply will vote Republican, or won’t vote at all, because they are pro-life. A rapidly shrinking, yet vocal, minority will vote over same-sex/traditional marriage. We are learning this cycle that a huge portion are voting mainly due to xenophobic fear of “the others”. Not the Game of Thrones Others, but anyone they think they can blame for their misfortune (e.g. Mexicans, Latinos, Chinese, Muslims).
This year has been dominated by two campaigns that are driven more by emotion than policy: Trump, and too a lesser extent, Sanders.