Check yes or no.

Do you support our values and love our people?

Do you endorse violence, hatred or oppression?

Has your home country been compromised by terrorism?

Those are the basics of the immigration questionnaire Donald Trump would have people fill out before we allow them into our country. He said as much during the Republican National Convention recently.

Trump didn’t specify that those questions would actually be asked, but he said only those who can answer “yes” to No. 1 and “no” to Nos. 2 and 3 should be let in.

Exactly how the government would discern the answers to those questions is unclear. But details have never been Trump’s strength.

That last question is especially tricky. What does he mean by “compromised by terrorism?”

“Lastly, and very importantly we must immediately suspend immigration from any nation that has been compromised by terrorism until such time as proven vetting mechanisms have been put in place. We don’t want them in our country,” Trump said.

Does he mean countries that have experienced terrorist attacks, like France and Germany? Or just countries where terrorists live, like every country in the world?

“To protect us from terrorism, we need to focus on three things. We must have the best absolutely the best gathering of intelligence anywhere in the world,” he said. “We must abandon the failed policy of nation building and regime change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Iraq, Libya, Egypt and Syria. Instead, we must work with all of our allies who share our goal of destroying ISIS and stamping out Islamic terrorism and doing it now and doing it quickly.”

Those comments should raise a few eyebrows. Trump says that America should have the best gathering of intelligence anywhere in the world. Sounds like Big Brother plans to collect more data on all of us. Where’s the pushback from the small government, Tea Party folks who typically bristle at the idea of government intrusion? Where are the proponents of privacy who railed against the NSA’s massive data collection program carried out under President Obama?

If you watched the convention live on TV, you could see them cheering on Trump as he spoke these words.

He also says we must abandon the policy of nation building and regime change. While he laid much blame at Clinton’s feet, he should look no further than his own party. Nation building and regime change are hallmarks of the GOP and with good reason — the party has long believed that America has a special place in the world and owes it to the world to help ensure democracy and freedom are valued everywhere.

But Trump is OK tossing that aside. Let’s focus on us and leave the world to destroy itself, he would argue. Never mind that a more democratic world makes us safer.  This “us-centered” foreign policy fits nicely with Trump’s narcissism.

If Republicans want to hitch their wagon to Trump, more power to them. But they shouldn’t pretend that he shares the values they have professed for years. He doesn’t and never will. They shouldn’t pretend he has even a basic understanding of domestic or foreign policy. They shouldn’t pretend he’s a conservative. They shouldn’t pretend that he is in any way qualified to be president.

They should own up to Trump’s appeal — namely that he’s not Clinton. For the party’s sake, I hope the rabid support he’s receiving is due to an aversion to Clinton and not because the party supports the garbage that spews from his mouth.

In the end, it may not matter. The party that many conservatives have known and supported may never be again.

Luke Horton is publisher of The Daily Leader. Contact him at luke.horton@dailyleader.com.