What exactly is Trump selling?

Would you buy a car from Donald Trump?

The car he’s currently hawking is all exterior gloss with shiny wheels. It has no motor, no seats, no interior of any kind.

It looks good sitting there. But is there anything more?

Thus far, Trump’s appeal to potential voters is his opposition to illegal immigration and his ability to make a snarky retort to political punditry and the mindless sophistry of the propaganda media. It’s gotten him great poll numbers.

His platform, best I can tell, is to “build a wall and make Mexico pay for it,” “Mexico and China are killing us,” “make America strong” and “support Israel unconditionally.”

Those are platitudes, sales pitches — nothing more.

How will The Donald do those things? He has yet to answer that question. When pressed, he moves on, or repeats the platitudes, or just says he knows how to get things done.

What does he know about the Constitution, about the separation of powers? He can’t “fire” Congress. Is he counting a supplicant Congress ceding its power to him as it did to Barack Obama? That’ll happen only if Trump’s aims — like Obama’s — mirror those of the Chamber of Commerce, Silicon Valley, K Street and the megabundlers that own the congressweasels.

How does Trump stand on issues dear to you — issues like religious liberty, gun rights, NSA snooping, the TSA, debt, smaller government, money printing, drone strikes, foreign wars, the IRS? Will he end unconstitutional government agencies or put an end to their extraconstitutional regulatory authority? Do you know? If you do, how do you? His campaign website doesn’t say. Nor does Trump.

I get it. You think Trump is speaking truth to power. He’s clearly shaking up the establishment. He’s not playing by the old rules. He’s a great salesman. That’s his appeal.

But America deserves better than a carnival barker in an expensive suit.

Trump is no more “one of us” than is Hillary Clinton or Jeb Bush. He doesn’t know what it’s like to toil in a factory or coal mine, to scrimp and save to make ends meet, to buy his own groceries on a budget, drive a ratty car in rush-hour traffic because that’s all he can afford.

Everything Trump has done his whole life is to accumulate more wealth and more aggrandizement for himself. And he didn’t get where he is without playing the game. He owes people favors. They will come first. Aside from some northeastern Zionists, we don’t even know who they are.

My dad always said “don’t buy a pig in a poke.”

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