The Dallas Morning News has recently published an editorial alleging that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is “no Republican and certainly no conservative.”

It isn’t the first article to make this case. Since last June, when Trump first announced his candidacy, The Washington Post, The Week, US News, and even National Review have all published articles conceding that he is not a true Republican.

Here’s the thing: they aren’t wrong.

First of all, it’s hard to determine what Trump’s true political beliefs are, or if he even truly has firm beliefs, when he has switched political parties six times in the last three decades.

What’s more, Trump has donated to as many as 96 candidates that have run for office at the federal level since the election cycle of 1990, and only 48 of them were Republicans. (And as was brought up at a debate during the Republican primaries, one of the candidates receiving his donations was his principal opponent in this election, former Secretary Hillary Clinton.)

Second of all, it may be impossible to say there is just one definition of a true Republican anymore. The Republican Party was divided even before Trump came along. The party’s conservative wing is almost uniformly fiscally and socially conservative but is divided on its support of interventionism.

Then there is the moderate wing, which is fiscally conservative but more socially liberal. And then there is the libertarian wing, an extension of the moderate wing which holds that the government should take a more-or-less hands-off approach to both economic and social issues.

What speaks even more to Trump’s questionable partisanship are the very proposals he has laid out in his campaign. It is for this reason that one might argue Trump has actually created his own ideologically wing of the Republican Party. Part of the reason that Trump is not a real Republican is that he is simply too conservative.

The prime example: Trump has proposed to ban would-be Muslim immigrants from entering the United States “until we can figure out what the hell is going on.”

Additionally, he has proposed that the federal government put Muslim neighborhoods and mosques under surveillance. These policies do not represent actual conservatism. His proposals regarding immigration violate one of the key principles upon which the Republican Party was founded: personal liberty.

Even more alarming is the fact that a handful of Trump’s economic policies stand in stark contrast with the Republican tenet of fiscal conservatism. If there’s any item that is signature to Trump other than “build the wall,” it’s his opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which he argues would be “an extension of NAFTA.”

This stance outright opposes a long-held Republican platform that favors free trade.

Furthermore, Trump has stated that he is opposed to reducing public spending for social programs, a policy that has long been in the Republican platform. “We’re gonna save your social security without making any cuts,” he told a rally this February.

Trump has also sought to increase funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs, promising to offer veterans “the choice to seek care at VA or private care, paid for by our government.”

The Republican Party is deeply divided. Trump loves to remind us all that he received more votes than any other candidate in the history of the Republican primary. As true as that may be, he received the lowest percentage of the overall vote that we’ve seen.

Even John McCain’s 46.7 percent in 2008 — which was another heavily contested race, largely due to the crippling Great Recession and America’s discontent with the Iraq War — is still a better figure than Trump’s 44.9 percent.

There is no denying that Trump, as a candidate, fails to represent every faction of the party. But whether he truly represents the ideals of the Republican Party, he’s here to stay for the next eight weeks or possibly the next four years.