No, I'm honestly convinced that Trump is a troll who is intentionally ginning up the nutbars to ensure that Republicans put up someone who can't win.
I tend conservative, but I'm not republican. I'm a christian, but I'm not a 'christian conservative' in the hate mongering judgemental arsehole form of it.
I feel like trump started as a joke and then stumbled into so much support that he said more and more outrageous things but kept getting support.