2. he's a deal maker, maybe with trump there will be less wars and more negotiating.
He's an amazing marketer. There's a lot of evidence over the years of him being less than awesome at making deals. He's the only guy in the biz bragging for 30 straight years about how great he is at dealmaking... so he kinda won the title by default.
He underperformed in the primaries against Cruz by being weak at dealmaking at the state level. Four major bankruptcies because he couldn't negotiate deals and frankly, took on projects that everyone said were dumb ideas that did fail.
Trump would be a fine president, if only because those around him would smack his ego down the first time he said something boneheaded. Some of his crazy ideas - more torture, take iraq's oil, kill children of terr'ists - those ideas are laughable and would get someone marked down in a HIGH SCHOOL debate. He doesn't have a huge touch on reality... but...
it's 2016. Gary Johnson is a pothead talking about the sun exploding in 4 billion years. Hillary is probably in the later stages of a serious brain disease. Generation clickbait is choosing a clickbait president - the prez has always been a reflection of society. So ya can't hate trump for being trump - he is the headline creating tough guy blowhard that people love in 2016.
The debate should be interesting.