albaby1, you are trying to apply logic and normalcy to Trump.

There is absolutely nothing logical or normal about Trump.

I'm not trying to apply logic or normalcy to Trump.

Trump is a egomaniacal malignant narcissist, which means he doesn't act normally or logically. It also means that there are certain things that he is likely to do, and certain things that he is exceedingly unlikely to do.

One of the things he is exceedingly unlikely to do is take seriously the policy suggestions of an old-school academic think tank. Instead, he's going to just do what he wants. Only when the old-school academic think tank suggests policies that he was going to follow anyway, there will be overlap.

Heritage has very little influence in a world where the right-wing has shifted into populism, but they have even less influence in a world where Donald Trump is the nominee. There may never have been a politician less inclined to pay attention to a policy brief than DJT.

That doesn't involve a claim that Donald Trump is logical or normal. Just that the argument that Heritage's policy additions have any importance or significance in Trumpworld just doesn't make any sense.