No one taught Donald Trump how to be a politician prior to his escalator descent into the presidential race in June 2015. As a result, at least at the beginning, Trump’s campaign was an improvised mishmash of tweets and insults and bragging. His rally speeches were festooned with poll readings and media-baiting and the occasional Trump steak — all wrapped around a few key observations of what was wrong with America and how he would go about fixing it. It was a campaign invented on the fly by a brash, sometimes vulgar guy . . . with a message.

As Trump’s inauguration approaches, the greatest fear of his virulent enemies on the left (and of the few remaining psychological cripples guarding their little island on the right) is that the media “normalize’’ Trump by downplaying his more scandalous pronouncements and outlandish behavior and casting him as just another Republican president.

Paradoxically, Trump’s most ardent supporters fear the same thing. Or more precisely, their fondest hope for the coming administration is that Trump continues to make his resonating, outrageous observations and to phrase them in words (and tweets) that cannot be ignored. In short, they hope that he remains immune from normalization.

This is because they view Trump’s most valuable assset to be a dynamic vision (however inscrutable it can sometimes be) that has produced promising policy proposals, rather than those proposals themselves.

For example, when Trump alleges that Mexico is not sending us their best people — that the practice of pregnant women entering the country to have “anchor babies’’ is appalling — his followers can hope that the day will come again when our borders are secure, our immigration laws are enforced, and employers are again embarrassed to hire illegal aliens.

When Trump asserts that many in the African-American community are “living in hell,’’ his followers recognize this not as criticism but as commiseration. They hope that education, family integrity, and prosperity — all premised on an environment of safety — can emerge in a place where “hope’’ has been until now just a cruel joke.

Finally, when Trump says that “China is raping our country’’ or that “NAFTA is the worst trade deal maybe ever,’’ his followers can hope that the devil’s bargain of trading the vitality of our working-class communities for cheap plastic products on Walmart shelves might be halted or even reversed.

The crux of our hope for President Trump’s administration is not merely that these policies and others — these short-range course corrections — be implemented but rather that through Trump’s continuing common-sense vision there be a bend in history toward a more prosperous, safe, and rational civilization. Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously said (quoting Proverbs) that “when there is no vision, the people perish.’’ As he prepares to take the oath of office, Trump will surely find that the view from Trump Tower is clearer than that in the swamps of Washington. Here’s hoping that he remains unnormalizable.

Mike Stopa was a delegate from Massachusetts for Donald Trump at the Republican convention. He podcasts with radio host Todd Feinburg at harvardlunchclub.com.