As the Blog has already noted, by conventional measurement, long experience and shrewd arithmetic, the Trump campaign has crashed and Hilary is a shoe in if she does not trip up or bust a heel before November. However there is a growing unease that polls and suchlike are not telling the true story because Trump is appealing to voters whom everybody, including pollsters, ignores, and there may just be a surprise in store. There is also the possibility that Trump is so reviled by official politics that respondents are not revealing their true intentions.
There is no point in guessing, neither is there much point in going into orbit every time Trump says something that extends the known boundaries of outrage and insult, mixed with irresponsibility. But it is worth reflecting that his foreign policy speech made sense in many ways to this Blog, which has been forever highly critical of both the State Department and its faithfully ally, the Foreign Office. Their policies at every level are bound to fail, do so and become very destructive when mixed with muddle headed military force.
So the simple nostrum that Trump will do business with any country which is fighting IS, whether he likes their ideology or not, shows a much more realistic way forward, than the Obama/Clinton method. Roosevelt and Churchill hated communism, knew Stalin butchered his own people and was a tyrant of the most frightening kind. But they still allied themselves to him to defeat Hitler.