I'm not an American nor I live in the US. So I have no skin on the game at all. When I first heard about Donald Trump I thought this was going to be a repeat of Trump 2012. Practically a joke. However, now I feel I'd pick this guy for president over everyone else in the field. He's smart, a total liar, a flip flopper and not ideological. Excellent qualities for a politician. Let's not kid ourselves, all politicians are like this, but Trump is honest about it.
Smart: Just because he presents himself as a dumb red neck doesn't mean he's stupid. I think that's the public persona he wants to present. I refuse to believe some dumb red neck just happened to cause the almost implosion of the Republican party, basically beating very smart people at their own game. He played his card rights, he read the mood of the times and he so far has avoided all the traps the Republican Establishment has set up for him. This guy is smart.
Liar: All politicians lie, why are people so worked up about this? I like Obama but he's lied several times. So has Bush and so has Clinton. In this respect he's just average, so no big deal. And let's be honest, to succeed in politics, you usually have to lie through the nose.
A flip flopper: Flip popping is an excellent quality for a politician. If something is clearly not working why stay the course? It really annoys me because I felt that deep down someone like Bush could see the whole Iraq debacle but he couldn't just come back and say "Sorry guys, my bad. let's get out of this mess." Trump has already flipflopped in HB1 visas and a little bit on torture. I trust him to flip flop on stuff that doesn't work if he becomes president. And he's not going to be sorry about flip flopping, which I think is good. Who wants some President who will stay the course with a wrong policy because he's afraid of being accused as a flip flopper?
Not ideological: This goes with flip flopping. He doesn't care about following a set of beliefs just so he can be a proper Republican. He's not afraid of being labelled a RINO. In some positions he's more to the left that Hillary. He's going to go for what works.
I really feel the media and the American establishment are measuring Trump on a very different yardstick to the one they measure themselves. For example, the whole torture thing and how the military would disobey such an order. I feel the military's response about not violating international law laughable. I mean, those guys have broken international law after international law under Bush and Obama and suddenly you're going to act all prissy about Trump ordering the same thing but more openly. "Oh we don't torture but we capture people and send them to countries that DO torture to get information from them", "Oh you see, we're not breaking the Geneva convention because they're NOT enemy combatants. We just found them laying about when we were battling the Taliban"
How about the whole game of pledging to support the eventual Republican nominee? That was a tactic clearly meant for Trump but he played his cards right. But hey, so the pledge means everyone in the Republican party will support Trump later right? Nope. There's open talk of stealing the convention or undermining Trump in the general election.