Yes, he can be both GOPe and a Trojan horse, the two go hand in hand. He doesn’t want to appear as establishment, he wants to look like an outsider to appeal to the anti establishment crowd. But in reality he grew up working for Bush back in 2000, and he even hired scum bag Neil Bush as his campaign finance advisor.
So he would like to appear he’s out there for the common middle class, but he is just another Bush and Goldman Sachs operative...oh, but somehow he forgot to put the big loan he got from them on his campaigns finance forms when first running...yeah, I’m not buying that. He’s a lawyer, he doesn’t forget paperwork.
I notice the author neglected Cruz’s VAT tax proposal. A VAT tax is not conservative, but, it does fit with his running mate’s North American Union plot.