Provide a critical commentary on Trump's character and policies.
Well, Trump caught a wave, as it were, but I'm not sure I credit him with street smarts -- he leaves the street fighting to hired hands. He's a classic bully -- a blowhard in the abstract, a coward in concrete cases (such as the meeting with the Mexican president.) Republicans and conservatives who detested him a year ago have embraced him now because they think he will sign anything they send him; and he will, for a while at least, because he doesn't really believe in anything or care about any of it. However, I take your point; his supporters appear oblivious to his defects of character, personality and judgment; Trump's genius, if he has any, is he recognizes that and plays them for fools.
I reluctantly credit Trump with emasculating Romney. He invited Romney to dinner and served 'Testicules de Romney'.