I understand where you are coming from.
Any candidate claiming to have a plan for every knotty issue is fibbing or not creative.
I’m a developer like Trump (except tiny compared to him) and I understand his thought process. We brainstorm, throw all possibilities into the mix and make last minute decisions based on instinct and the best information available at the moment.
We don’t wear the blinders of ideology so we are free to think creatively. People who are slaves to ideology never have to make a decision, they just look at the template and plug it in.
I prefer the General Patton types.
I’ve been thinking of the Don as a Patton type. Specifically, his mouth. I was remembering the scene in Patton where Omar Bradley (Karl Malden) is reading him the riot act and he concludes with “George, (pause) you have a big mouth.” But also his aggressiveness, his combativeness, and his audacity.