I think you’ve made a few flawed assumptions. First, Trump’s biggest business asset is his “talking” - his reality show has been what greatly magnified the value of the name Trump. It was a master stroke, but it does not necessarily portend an understanding of macro economics. His support of TARP, Stimulus, all the bail outs and KELO indicates a clear LACK of understanding of the little guy.
And yet the little guy loves him. Damndest thing I’ve ever seen.
Your shortchange of Cruz is also intellectually lazy and shallow.
A lot of people don't get it yet. Trump would be a vast, cosmic improvement over the malignant and malevolent Obama, but he'd still be a Yacht Club Republicrat with a pen and a phone and a media presence (established, unlike Obama's, against hostile media bias).
Critics of Trump have been making the consequentialist case against Trump, that people sick of Obama are willing to settle for another publicity hound just because he's running as an anti-Obama, who might turn out to be uncomfortably Mittensesque, or even Rockefellerian, in his policies and politics if elected. That includes schmoozing with CFR-connected Trilateral schmooze artists and Chinese tycoons.
Oh, and did I mention that guys like that are the ones the Pew sociologists found weakest on RKBA, of all the pieces and chunks of the Republican coalition? (That was back in 1999.)
Back calling names I see.
I calls them as I sees them!